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Local and Regional News

02/09/2009 Hybrid car places sixth in competition
03/02/2006 Civil engineering scholarships offered
01/23/2006 Penn State team enters solar energy design competition
10/05/2005 PSU in line to design undersea craft
09/16/2005 Drexel’s Concrete Canoe Team Takes Home First at the 2005 Regional Competition
09/16/2005 Rensselaer Researcher To Showcase New Solar Underwater Robot
09/16/2005 RIT to Host Hands-on Engineering Conference for 8th-10th Grade Girls
07/04/2005 Students take first place at tech conference
06/07/2005 EPA Awards $75K to RIT Students for Solar Oven Design
03/30/2005 McKeesport team seeks robot victory
03/17/2005 Two Students Build Wind Tunnel
03/13/2005 McKeesport Robot Rolls On To National Contest in Atlanta

National and International News

02/08/2010 Electric Planes Could Transform How We Fly
12/30/2009 Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye
12/25/2009 2010 preview: Journey to the bottom of the sea
09/25/2009 High School Student Develops Chemical-Detecting Robot
07/06/2009 Boat-'Bots for Brainiacs: LEGO Subs Launch Young Engineers
07/03/2009 Robot rescue "rat" feels its way through rubble
07/03/2009 Students Create Portable Device To Detect Suicide Bombers
07/03/2009 Triple-engined car could smash land-speed record
06/05/2009 Floating wind turbine launched
06/03/2009 Robot sub reaches deepest ocean
06/01/2009 Robot farmhands prepare to invade the countryside
05/11/2009 Formula 1 Diffuser Controversy
05/11/2009 Secrets of Underbody Tunnels, Rear Diffusers and Venturis
04/14/2009 Echo vision: The man who sees with sound
04/14/2009 Mystery of Tooth Strength Cracked
04/14/2009 Perfect Running Pace Revealed
04/03/2009 Robot achieves scientific first
03/29/2009 Nuclear-Power Industry Enjoys Revival 30 Years After Accident
03/29/2009 Penn State Conference Explores Solar Power's Bright Prospects in Pennsylvania
03/29/2009 Surge of college students pursuing 'clean energy' careers
03/28/2009 Electric Cars--How Much Does It Cost per Charge?
03/28/2009 Media distortion damages both science and journalism
03/28/2009 Wind-powered car breaks record
03/21/2009 Building a 1,000 mph car
02/15/2009 Cycling Enters the Electronic Age With a New Gear-Shifting System
02/09/2009 Bugs Find Meals With Heat Sensors
02/01/2009 Across the ocean in a pedal-powered submarine
02/01/2009 Cheap, super-efficient LED lights on the horizon
01/27/2009 Vex Robotics Competition Report from Lansdale, PA
01/27/2009 Want to engineer real change? Then don't ask a scientist
01/04/2009 Mars rovers roll on to five years
11/26/2008 U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
11/24/2008 Material slicker than Teflon discovered by accident
11/18/2008 Ancient grave reveals 'Flintstone' nuclear family
11/18/2008 Division of labour may not be key to ant success
11/18/2008 Why don't the Mars rovers have dust wipers?
10/23/2008 Scotch Tape Emits X-Rays
10/23/2008 Supersonic car targets 1,000mph
10/05/2008 Steve Fossett's unfinished legacy: Deepest ocean exploration
10/05/2008 Sunspots Are Fewest Since 1954, but Significance Is Unclear
09/30/2008 Fuel thinner turns diesel cars into greener machines
09/25/2008 5 Myths About Wind Energy
09/24/2008 Solar wind blows at 50-year low
09/22/2008 Delay for the Large Hadron Collider
09/22/2008 Dig pinpoints Stonehenge origins
09/22/2008 Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold'
09/16/2008 EPA confused by Chevy Volt's fuel economy
09/16/2008 GM debuts the Chevy Volt
09/12/2008 Nuclear industry looking for a wave of new hires
09/12/2008 Penn State team designs car for race
09/12/2008 Solar Roofing Materials
09/11/2008 “Historic” collider operation begins
09/11/2008 How an Eggbeater Could Power the Future
09/11/2008 Why delaying gratification is smart
09/11/2008 Working LHC produces first images
09/02/2008 How dependent are we on foreign oil?
12/13/2007 Captain Kidd Ship Found
12/13/2007 Extra Sunshine Blamed for Part of Arctic Meltdown
12/13/2007 Magma May Be Melting Greenland Ice
12/13/2007 Saturn's Rings as Old as Solar System, Study Says
12/13/2007 UK pulls out of key physics and astronomy projects
12/13/2007 Voyager 2 finds solar system's shape is 'dented'
12/13/2007 Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies
12/11/2007 Mars robot unearths microbe clue
12/11/2007 Sorting Cells With Beams Of Light
12/11/2007 Tackling climate change - Bali summit
12/11/2007 Wind energy to power UK by 2020
11/22/2007 New Oil Crisis: An Engineer Shortage
11/22/2007 Skin transformed into stem cells
11/22/2007 Wanted: A new generation of Einsteins
11/22/2007 Whatever Happened to Nuclear Power?
03/09/2007 "There are more jobs in computing and information technology today than at any point in our past"
03/09/2007 Carnegie Mellon to celebrate accomplishments of robotics pioneer
03/09/2007 Despite Job Growth In Related Fields, College Enrollment In Computer Science Is Down By Half
03/09/2007 Gene behind tanning comes out of hiding
03/09/2007 Genes help determine how you perform at night
03/09/2007 Intel Unveils 50-Watt Quad-core Chips
03/03/2007 Computer sleuths try to crack Pioneer anomaly
03/03/2007 Nanorod coating makes least reflective material ever
03/03/2007 Non-auto orders for robots up, but overall sales down 30%
03/03/2007 Search and rescue robots team up for tricky tasks
02/28/2007 Milestone for giant physics lab
02/27/2007 Retiree is first female Vermont Engineer of the Year
02/17/2007 A new ally in the energy crisis: Termites
02/17/2007 Meteor warning system needed, says panel
02/13/2007 Afternoon naps may boost heart health
02/13/2007 Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
02/04/2007 Penguin waddling is not wasteful
01/31/2007 Military Builds Robotic Insects
01/31/2007 Shining a light on solar-power costs
01/31/2007 The global war for talent - Will the lack of enough skilled workers kill off India's IT boom?
01/31/2007 Zap teams with Lotus for electric sports car
01/28/2007 Fuel cell automatically throttles its power
01/28/2007 How sunshine triggers skin repair
01/28/2007 Intel shows off next generation transistors
01/27/2007 Engineering a Better Environment
01/27/2007 Number of engineering graduates plummet
01/27/2007 Passion for music leads him to engineering career
01/27/2007 Robots of the Future: Soft and Flexible
01/27/2007 The quiet crisis: Educational leaders must rally to grow U.S. technology promise
01/24/2007 'Sniffer-bot' algorithm helps robots seek scents
01/19/2007 An engineering masterpiece
01/19/2007 Engineering reaches out with T-STEM
01/19/2007 Engineering struggles to boost number of female students
01/19/2007 Female Engineers: No Longer the Forbidden Trade
01/19/2007 MAZES TO MOTORCYCLES: Programming engineer navigates mostly male field
01/19/2007 School works toward engineering program
01/09/2007 Make Your Own Home Bot With iRobot's New Robotics Platform
01/09/2007 New magazine to encourage study of science and engineering
01/09/2007 Robotics competition blends math, science and sportsmanship
01/08/2007 GM goes electric with concept car
01/08/2007 In Pix: GM's Electric Car
01/04/2007 Energy Innovations readies solar concentrator for this year
01/04/2007 Hybrid molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct
01/04/2007 U.S. needs to invest in science, engineering
01/04/2007 Virginia Western robotics competition includes county students
01/04/2007 Wal-Mart readies large-scale move into solar power
12/25/2006 Platform sharing: Your cars' tangled family tree
12/20/2006 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Develops Nation's First Major in Robotics Engineering
12/19/2006 Penn State hosts engineering class for elementary students
12/13/2006 Learning Factory Project Showcase will be Dec. 14
12/13/2006 Microsoft unveils public robotics software
12/12/2006 Congress Extends Solar Tax Credit
12/12/2006 High school girls build solar powered boat
12/12/2006 New Technique Studies How Plastic Solar Cells Turn Sunlight into Electricity
12/12/2006 Solar-Powered Hydrogen Generation
12/11/2006 Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars
12/08/2006 Solar cell breaks efficiency record
06/27/2006 MIT research may spell end for the battery
05/31/2006 U.S. Holds Own Vs. China, India Engineer Grads
05/30/2006 Mars robots to get smart upgrade
05/30/2006 The Surprising Complexity of Walking
05/30/2006 Why Do Workouts Work?
05/23/2006 Camp focuses on math, science
05/23/2006 Fire Protection Engineers Hold Some of Highest Paid Engineering Jobs
05/23/2006 Soldiers bond with iRobot machine
05/13/2006 Wheels turn on Mars rover project
05/12/2006 British Inventor Unveils 8000 MPG Car
05/12/2006 House passes $10M hydrogen prize
05/11/2006 Engineering students test catapult designs
05/11/2006 Job market for grads best in five years
05/11/2006 More Americans are abandoning the commuting rat race for working at home.
05/11/2006 Nuclear industry steps up its hiring
05/05/2006 Old solar tech back in limelight
05/02/2006 Computer Science Looks for a Remake
05/02/2006 Scientists worry about solar superstorm
05/01/2006 Nuclear engineers in high demand
05/01/2006 Spring babies 'face suicide risk'
04/27/2006 Microsoft Shines with 480 kW Solar Power System
04/25/2006 Biotechnology Advocates Look to a Brighter Future through Genetic Engineering
04/25/2006 Hybrids and Hydrogen: Cures for the Gas Pump Blues?
04/25/2006 Robo-turtle answers some flippery questions
04/25/2006 Spirit to start digging the Martian dirt
04/24/2006 Green mini-car to beat congestion
04/18/2006 Rumblings on the moon could be problematic for lunar base
04/13/2006 CMU to introduce unmanned combat vehicle
04/13/2006 Russian students win programming contest
04/13/2006 Snake robots could aid in rescues
04/13/2006 Venus probe sends back first images
04/08/2006 Dow Chemical gives $2 million to Penn State engineering program
04/08/2006 Like to tinker? NASA's looking for you
04/08/2006 World 'cannot meet oil demand'
03/23/2006 Nanotube circuit could boost chip speeds
03/21/2006 Mars rover's wheel breaks as winter beckons
03/21/2006 Optical-speed light detector promises fast space talk
03/21/2006 Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists
03/17/2006 Be smarter at work, slack off
03/13/2006 NASA and Google bring Mars to PCs everywhere
03/10/2006 New Mars probe safely enters orbit
03/07/2006 Family may provide evolution clue
03/07/2006 Super Battery: The M1 stomps all over today's cells
03/03/2006 Robotic 'pack mule' displays stunning reflexes
03/02/2006 Online amateurs crack Nazi codes
03/01/2006 Building with light materials
03/01/2006 Turning nature's design into scientific breakthrough
02/28/2006 Bioengineers create stable networks of blood vessels
02/27/2006 Operate on a heart without missing a beat
02/27/2006 Science and Engineering Indicators 2006
02/15/2006 Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high
02/14/2006 Robots are saving American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan
02/13/2006 ENIAC--monster and marvel--debuted 60 years ago
02/11/2006 Fossett flies to non-stop record
02/10/2006 Bottled water, a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem
02/10/2006 'Micro' wind turbines are coming to town
02/08/2006 Fossett steers toward long-distance flight record
02/07/2006 New Apollo program needed to boost engineering education
01/31/2006 Experts cite ethanol pros, cons
01/31/2006 Mine Buster Targets Breast Cancer
01/31/2006 Robots engineering scientific minds (Huron, MI)
01/30/2006 Better pay could land more math, science teachers
01/30/2006 Energy-efficient items bring tax savings, too
01/30/2006 North Dakota to Test Balloons for Cellular Service
01/27/2006 Car makers embrace lithium ion batteries for hybrid vehicles
01/27/2006 Ford unveils flexible fuel hybrid Escape
01/27/2006 Hybrid Accord fast off the mark, saves gas money
01/26/2006 Reinventing the Wheel: Pushing the limits in high performance bike design
01/25/2006 At Yale, women dominate biomedical engineering
01/25/2006 Scottish Scientists Explore Solar Hydrogen Production
01/24/2006 Baffled Scientists Say Less Sunlight Reaching Earth
01/24/2006 College seeks to sponsor charter school
01/24/2006 Japanese drill for climate clues in Antarctic ice
01/24/2006 Louisiana students enter NASA sponsored robotics contest
01/23/2006 Engineering Ranks Highest Among Starting Salaries
01/22/2006 Customized Wheelchairs Offer Stylish Ride
01/18/2006 Super-powerful new ion engine revealed
01/16/2006 Pluto mission ready for lift-off
01/16/2006 Sea energy 'could help power UK'
01/13/2006 Penn State engineers to study re-entry of Stardust mission's capsule
01/11/2006 Engineers create mathematical method to design better robots, structures
01/05/2006 Better robots could help save disaster victims
01/05/2006 Nano Building Made Easy
01/05/2006 Record Set for Space Laser Communication
01/05/2006 The Odds of Dying
01/04/2006 2006: A busy year in space
12/19/2005 Bomb-disposal robot scoops up radioactive source
12/12/2005 Gates Concentrates on India
12/10/2005 Earth's Magnetic Pole Drifting Quickly
12/10/2005 Paper-thin, foldable battery to attach to clothes
12/09/2005 Scientists watch for birth of a new sea
12/06/2005 Researchers make most detailed survey ever of San Adreas Fault
12/01/2005 Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream
11/28/2005 Secrets of bee flight revealed
11/27/2005 Energy hogs in your living room
11/24/2005 Monster Scope to Dwarf Rivals
11/19/2005 $100-laptop created for world’s poorest countries
11/19/2005 Butterfly wings work like LEDs
11/19/2005 Musically trained children process language better
11/19/2005 NASA collects gravity data to test Einstein's theory
11/19/2005 Tests: Skull fragments may be Beethoven's
11/15/2005 Meditation builds up the brain
11/15/2005 Ultra-sensitive microscope reveals DNA processes
11/14/2005 Supercomputers set processor pace
11/09/2005 Britain facing large energy gap
11/09/2005 'Gravity tractor' to deflect Earth-bound asteroids
11/09/2005 Light could trigger super-fast synthetic muscles
10/26/2005 Plate tectonics on Mars confirmed
10/26/2005 Smart fire detector could slash false alarms
10/22/2005 Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs
10/22/2005 NASA hosting space elevator competition
10/22/2005 The World's Smallest Car
10/21/2005 Stronger Than Steel, Harder Than Diamonds
10/20/2005 NASA, Air Force Team Up on Next Generation Rocket Engine
10/20/2005 Solar-Powered Bus Stops
10/18/2005 Intel cuts PC boot time
10/18/2005 Mars rover bids farewell to Husband Hill
10/18/2005 Robots shift car tech into high gear
10/18/2005 Venus mission ready for blast off
10/15/2005 Robo-Mule Gets Wheel, Leg Blend
10/14/2005 Behind robotics, a squadron of bright real people
10/14/2005 Unexpected Downside of Wind Power
10/14/2005 Weightless space travel may suppress immune system
10/12/2005 Top Advisory Panel Warns of an Erosion of the U.S. Competitive Edge in Science and Engineering
10/11/2005 China launches rocket into space
10/11/2005 Exercise amount more important than intensity
10/11/2005 How the Internet has affected newspaper readership
10/10/2005 Engineers Examine Levee Failures
10/09/2005 Driverless robots reach milestone in DARPA race
10/08/2005 Russia tests collapsible mini-spacecraft
10/05/2005 Generating Hope
10/05/2005 Keeping pace with robots
10/05/2005 Robots in action
10/01/2005 A push-me, pull-you car
10/01/2005 Astronomers and engineers clash over leap seconds
09/28/2005 Illinois team’s battery charge design wins first prize in national competition
09/28/2005 Solar racing across the outback
09/25/2005 The High-Performance Hybrids
09/23/2005 Evolutionary Tools Help Unlock Origins of Ancient Languages
09/23/2005 Space elevator robot passes 1,000-foot mark
09/20/2005 Engineers turn to biology for inspiration
09/20/2005 Gender theory brought back to earth
09/15/2005 NASA to unveil plans for 2018 moon mission
09/15/2005 Tiny robot imitates caterpillar
09/14/2005 Robotic Vehicles Race, but Innovation Wins
09/13/2005 Ant logic makes sense in space
09/13/2005 Flash memory closing in on hard drives?
09/13/2005 Health care system needs major dose of technology
09/13/2005 Most distant cosmic blast sighted
09/12/2005 German Auto Industry Is Coming Late to the Hybrid Party
09/11/2005 An airbag for motorcyles
09/11/2005 'Bionic eye' has potential to cure blindness
09/09/2005 Backpack generates electricity
09/08/2005 Road salting makes streams more like seawater
09/07/2005 Rensselaer Researcher To Showcase New Solar Underwater Robot Technology
09/07/2005 Self-healing electronic devices
09/02/2005 Powering a new generation of cars
09/01/2005 Mars rover enjoys view from the top
08/31/2005 Gentlemen, start your solar cells
08/30/2005 Small satellite to tackle big biological issues
08/29/2005 How 90,000 lines of code helped spark the bioinformatics explosion
08/26/2005 Earth's core runs ahead of crust
08/26/2005 Power lines may provide a haven for bees
08/26/2005 Scale buildings in a single bound
08/25/2005 Hormone Identified That Extends Life of Mice
08/25/2005 Robotic spy-planes use shape-shifting wings
08/24/2005 Laundry gets high-tech
08/24/2005 Mitsubishi testing Lancer EVO with in-wheel electric motors
08/23/2005 Designs in motion for new combat vehicles
08/22/2005 Cow manure eyed as alternate fuel source
08/22/2005 Penn State building goes green
08/22/2005 The Next Big Thing Is Small: Nanotechnology Could Lead To Radical Improvements For Space Exploration
08/20/2005 Speed of light made faster
08/18/2005 A Century of Einstein
08/18/2005 Nanotech researchers report big breakthrough
08/18/2005 'Singing' wings help prevent small-plane stalls
08/17/2005 Gates calls for a better science and engineering workforce
08/17/2005 Guide to High MPG Vehicles
08/17/2005 'Silent aircraft' design launched
08/15/2005 Bluetooth scanner 'stroke hope'
08/15/2005 Putting CRTs on life support
08/15/2005 Race for engineering edge to be won, lost in colleges
08/15/2005 Schools try to draw the line for wired kids
08/15/2005 Shuttle crew reflect on crucial flight
08/15/2005 Spanning the way to better bridges
08/15/2005 Thin skin will help robots 'feel'
08/15/2005 Tsunami clue to 'Atlantis' found
08/14/2005 Turning on a dime: Making robotic soccer players more agile
08/13/2005 Strange Orbits
08/13/2005 Tinkerers modify their hybrid cars to get more mileage per gallon
08/13/2005 U.S. losing leadership in engineering to Asia
08/12/2005 Helping Beat Poverty - Engineers Without Borders
08/12/2005 Kids battle robot in goldfish-catching contest
08/12/2005 NASA Probe Blasts Off for Mars
08/12/2005 Northeast feels the pinch; not enough new engineering grads to meet long-term demand
08/11/2005 Carnegie Mellon robot will look for life on Mars
08/09/2005 Electrical Inefficiency A Dark Spot for China
08/09/2005 Making paper waterproof--and writable
08/09/2005 US High School Science Lab Experiences Often Poor, But Research Points Way To Improvements
08/08/2005 Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes
08/08/2005 Hearing Aids for the Unimpaired
08/08/2005 Sea Robots Play Critical Role in Recovery, Research
08/08/2005 Thermal system collects road heat in summer, returns it in winter
08/07/2005 Chemist tries to solve world's energy woes
08/06/2005 Super Scorpio begins cutting cables entangling sub
08/05/2005 Navy To Send Two Super Scorpio Craft to Aid Russian Sub
08/03/2005 'Clean' Vehicle Research Initiative On Track, But Many Challenges Ahead
07/30/2005 What's This? A New Planet
07/15/2005 Abandoned Spaceships
07/15/2005 Engineers' Image Differs Across the Globe
07/12/2005 Five Decades of Human Spaceflight
06/17/2005 Race-Car Safety Plays by Ear
06/16/2005 1836 miles per gallon?
06/15/2005 Efficient "can" lights open opportunities for energy savings
04/15/2005 With a Little Engineering Help, Captured Nazi Sub Finds New Home
03/25/2005 Hybrid Locomotive Gains Traction
01/30/2004 New Swimsuit Technology Reduces Drag
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