Predicting severe hail storms
Research News NSF-supported research at the University of Oklahoma uses supercomputers and simulations to improve storm forecasts March 22, 2016 When a hail storm moved through Fort Worth, Texas on…
Flint water crisis: For young engineers, a lesson on the importance of listening
Research News Students in engineering ethics class helped uncover lead levels in Flint water, learned to listen to community in distress March 23, 2016 Sheldon Masters, a former Virginia Tech…
S. Korea demands Google explain Monday’s outage to local users under new law Updated: 2020-12-15 13:23:44 KST
The South Korean government is demanding that Google explain what caused its services, including Gmail and YouTube, to go down worldwide Monday night. This is the first use of a…
Video: Changing ocean chemistry may threaten Antarctic food chain
Research News To monitor changes, researchers deploy automated ocean sensors around McMurdo Sound, Antarctica March 24, 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have…
Video: Tiny cars help infants’ cognitive development
Research News Research helps young children ‘hack’ their own mobility solutions March 30, 2016 Infants constantly explore their environments, toddling and crawling around while at the same time laying the…
NASA Awards Contract for Global Hawk Skyrange Program
NASA has selected Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. (NGSC) of San Diego to provide demonstration engineering, manufacturing, and technical support for the Global Hawk Skyrange program at the agency’s Armstrong Flight…
Nanoscale solutions to a very large problem
Research News NSF-funded Nanosystems Engineering Research Center to enable deployment of mobile, efficient water treatment and desalination systems March 31, 2016 Water, water is everywhere, but we need more drops…