Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

In my last post I said I'd steer clear of the whole cold fusion thing until something interesting happens. Well, in the last week something interesting has happened ... Once again, let me do a quick ...

Imagine you own a weather station. Then imagine that after some years have passed, you’ve had to replace one of the sensors multiple times. Your new problem is that the sensor is no longer available.

Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that's precisely what a team of engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Everyone knows that the one thing that could weaken Superman was kryptonite. You might not realize it, but within your corporate culture your own version of ...

Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that's precisely what a team of engineers did when they designed a one-of-a-kind ...

My daily driver is a 2013 Mercedes SLK 55 AMG. I adore this car and want to keep it as long as possible. I am approaching 100K miles and have only had to do routine maintenance; I probably ...

"There's no such thing! Is there?" Engineers have among the greatest freedom to choose our allegiances throughout Azeroth and Outland. While Jewelcrafters and leatherworkers spend hours and days ...

“Unobtainium” — with apologies to James Cameron, who borrowed it for Avatar’s MacGuffin mineral — is actually much older than the movie. Aerospace engineers coined it in the 1950s as wry shorthand for ...

All that effort went down the drain, as we saw in the first Avatar movie in 2009, and it seems that the term unobtainium is going to give new nightmares to the gamers here on Earth. The new Avatar: ...

Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that’s precisely what a team of engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...