Category: Features
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Skunk Works
Though the urgency for the Shooting Star might have been exaggerated, the Nazi threat, coupled with Johnson’s peculiar characteristics, was perhaps the only way such a unique operation might ever have been formed in the first place.
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The Wrestler
In between problem sets, design projects and exams this academic year, the rising star trained for Olympic tryouts.
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Is it time to get serious about geoengineering?
Several techniques fall under the umbrella term “geoengineering,” a field of study that focuses on limiting the effects of climate change by deliberately manipulating the earth’s climate system.
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Out of the #Flood
In the face of disaster, a city’s social media is saving lives and infrastructure. Is this just the beginning for crowd-sourced salvation?
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A matter of time
How the Internet of Things infiltrated one home, and what it could signal about the future of privacy and security.
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How we roll
Going driverless could be the biggest reboot of the American transportation system since the horse and buggy went the way of, well, the horse and buggy. Are we ready to make it happen?
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Making a Middle Class
Can engineering education lift Ethiopia?
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Designing intelligence
Can we create machines who learn like we do?
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Peecycling
In the first large-scale pilot project of its kind in the nation, researchers tested whether they could safely make fertilizer for food crops out of disinfected human urine.
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Computer Science with Soul
Students in a software engineering course developed technologies to help one teen communicate. They’re also working to fill a void in the market for assistive devices.