Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens ...

It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, ...

Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, ...

In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selected, ...

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this ...

We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. We might rationalize that they’re worth keeping ...

Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds ...

For whatever reason, [Jeremy] wants to photograph bees in flight. This is one of those things that doesn’t seem that hard until you try to do it. He’s got the mechanical part that can move the camera ...

Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers ...

There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something of an engineering hero ...

It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how ...