An interesting article from ScienceDaily reports that techniques being researched for an upcoming European mission to Mars could be directly applied to help address the energy crisis here on Earth. Basically, the process of separating organic material from space rock could be applied to purifying the large quantities of water required to refine unconventional fossil [...]
Back in February, I had written a post about the differences between science and engineering, titled “Science Isn’t Engineering; Engineering Isn’t Science.” This morning, I came across a very interesting blog by a guy named Eric Drexler, who writes about science and technology at Metamodern.com. He elaborates more on the topic that I had superficially [...]
Greetings! The semester is over now, and we are back. Many thanks to all you loyal readers and casual readers out there, and your patience during our recent “down time.” We now return to the feature presentation… It turns out that aircraft wings are specially designed to provide an upward lift force when the aircraft [...]
When you are riding a bicycle or a motorcycle and are about to make a turn, you (often subconsciously) perform a small “countersteer” in the opposite direction of your turn before actually turning in your desired direction. That is, if you are about to make a right turn on your bike, you actually make a [...]
Experiments and simulations are often used to science and engineering to test and verify concepts in question. So, what are the fundamental differences between them? Here is how I see it. Experiments are performed in a real-world context, while simulations are run under the most ideal conditions. Now, we all know that things in real [...]