Low Global Oil Prices Could Last Decades, Stimulate Growth
Today, the price of oil is $60 a barrel. Over the past year, the price has remained under $100 and has been as low as the mid to high 40’s. Oil prices have not been…
Engineering
Watch Blue Origin’s New Shepard Space Vehicle Launch For the First Time!
Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle launched on its first developmental test flight last week, marking a major milestone for Jeff Bezos’s company. Despite the fact Blue Origin was unable to recover the propulsion module…
Skilling Up with Online Learning
As engineers, we learn a lot of the fundamentals of engineering in school, but as our careers develop, many of us feel that more training would be useful. When this has been the case in…
This Team of Flat Robots Can Easily Roll Up Under Your Car and Move or Park It Autonomously
Are you terrible at parking? Probably… Well, lucky for you, the AVERT (Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool) system is a gang of flat robots capable of lifting a car up by its wheels and parking…
Zero-Energy Groundfridge Uses Insulating Effect of Soil to Store Perishables
Refrigerators are responsible for a big portion of home energy use. In most homes, refrigerators are the second largest user of energy after air conditioners. With most of appliances, you can save energy by using…
Real Time Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Supporting Sustainable Development
Canada is one of the world’s largest suppliers of forest products and is beginning to use Earth observation GIS technology, including remote sensing, to track 83 indicators to measure whether or not its forests are…
This Realistic Humanoid Robot Can React to Your Facial Expressions
Humanoid robots have been fascinating people ever since the development of robots. In science fiction, these human-like robots are shown to be capable of emulating human expressions, but in reality the capabilities of humanoid robots are…
Teaching Engineering With Cartoons & Funny Machines
Capturing the Imagination of College Freshmen Add simplicity, bright colors, creativity, and imagination and you’ve got the series of cartoons introducing young and old alike to economics, statistics, climate change, engineering, physics and more. One…
Artists Set Cameras in Forest to Capture Magical Images at Night in ‘Bioluminescent Forest’
To capture the beauty of forests, two artists, Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad, did not rely on painting nice pictures. Instead, they spent six weeks in the forest to painstakingly observe their surroundings before capturing…
Shanty-Scraper: An Innovative Skyscraper
To celebrate outstanding ideas for vertical living, eVolo magazine has been holding an annual contest since 2006. eVolo receives thousands of projects from all over the world for this competition. The winning entries are selected for…
