In the ’30s, Ettore Bugatti redirected a large slice of his empire’s engineering might towards the design of a ground-breaking air racer. Several years ago, the massive undertaking of building a full-scale replica of the Model 100 started in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is now nearing completion with its maiden flight planned for this year. By Alan Franklin.

A new study unpicks how the skin of the Texas horned lizard funnels water towards its mouth, and unveils a plastic replica that uses the same principles. By Jonathan Webb.

Excerpted from Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers by Marc Chamberland. Out now from Princeton University Press. What do grocers and honeybees have in common? The obvious answer is that they are both adept at providing food for others. But there is a richer, more technical answer to this question: These two groups know how to efficiently pack their resources.

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1937 film perfectly explains how a car differential works. Even if you already understand the concept, this vintage visual illustration breaks it down beautifully.

Pedal to the Metal – RS-25 Engine Revs Up Again

Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla! Born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan (now Croatia), Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer and physicist. Tesla is most famously known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity system.

Super slow-motion video reveals the engineering secrets researchers can learn from the creatures' spring-loaded legs.

As robots get smarter, cheaper and more versatile, they're taking on more challenges – including bricklaying. Engineers in Australia have created a fully working house-builder that can create the brick framework of a property in just two days, working about 20 times faster than a human bricklayer.

A 3D-printed guitar is just one example of how the fusion of design and engineering is pushing art, medicine and sports technology into new frontiers.

Samsung researchers have developed a new technology that enables them to coat silicon battery cathodes with high crystal graphene. This means that they can now virtually double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries! This energy density increase could almost double the range of electric vehicles without adding a single pound of weight. This could also double the electric-mode range of plug-in hybrid cars, significantly reducing reliance on their built-in gasoline engines.

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The fervor over STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) goes beyond promoting a quartet of academic subjects. Rather, it’s about the kind of nation and people we are to be. By Andrew Hacker.

Evaporation is one of the givens here on Earth, right up there with death and taxes. At any given moment, water is evaporating from the ground or oceans and entering the air in massive quantities. Now, some researchers think they may have figured out a way to harness that process to create an endlessly renewable energy source. In a paper published today in Nature Communications scientists at Columbia announced that they had figured out a way to build an evaporation engine capable of producing...

A 1:24 scale hyperloop that fits in a classroom.

Some of you may have been following our recent attempts to vertically land the first stage of our Falcon 9 rocket back on Earth.

Tiny cracks found on some of the rods on the new Bay Bridge tower potentially endanger the rest of the more than 400 remaining fasteners that secure the tower to the foundation in an earthquake, Caltrans officials said Tuesday...

In late April, Tesla Motors took a step toward upending home energy when it announced the Powerwall, a battery for homes that can provide backup power, and that was paired with higher capacity versions for businesses and even power companies. Within about a week of the announcement, Bloomberg reported, the company had already pulled in $800 million worth of orders, with the vast majority of revenue not for individual home batteries but rather for larger...

These six shifts will transform markets over the next 25 years