Engineering News

NASA's Curiosity rover has continued its impressive run of engineering firsts on Mars by drilling a six centimeter hole and extracting material for analysis.

Three-dimensional printing has already become one of the biggest trends in engineering innovation, but researchers continue to show that the technology can be applied effectively to even the smallest of products.

Millions of years after an asteroid was blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs, the destructive potential of these galactic travelers has been on the minds of scientists, engineers and movie directors.

Offshore wind has been struggling in recent years to bring costs down low enough to compete with onshore installations, much less the more established technologies like natural gas and coal.

A science balloon launched by NASA over Antarctica has not only broken records for flight duration, but collected so much data and engineering information that it will take scientists nearly two years to analyze it all.

Boat owners and cruise ship operators may soon be able to relieve themselves of the tiresome task of clearing unwanted marine growth from hulls, thanks to engineering research conducted by Duke University.

The engineering innovation that brought about the shale revolution in U.S. oil and gas production may promise to end the country's dependence on foreign energy imports, but plenty of Americans are still wary of the new technology.

The biggest stories in engineering research in 2012 were probably not the biggest actual projects completed last year.

The announcement that a Dutch architect was planning to use 3D-printing to construct a building may have raised a few eyebrows in the construction industry, but it appears that some designers have set their sights even higher.

Most people have come to accept the idea that policy makers need to take action to stop global warming, even if many of them disagree what kinds of costs are acceptable.