Diverse Teams Are Needed to Save the Planet
[ad_1] Engineering has a white-male problem. Women make up just 14.5 percent of the engineering workforce in the United Kingdom, with ethnic minorities constituting just 8 percent. For Lila Ibrahim,…
Your Phone Can Determine If a Bridge Is Busted
[ad_1] Because you’re a very responsible person who doesn’t text and drive, when you roll over a bridge your smartphone is stuck to the dash, where it is perhaps giving…
A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
[ad_1] In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that can spontaneously roll uphill by wiggling. This “odd wheel” looks simple: just six small motors linked together by plastic…
Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future
[ad_1] There’s no shortage of work out there, either. China recently completed a 20-kilometer railway tunnel in the Longmen Mountains after a decade of construction. There’s the HS2 rail project…