Engineering

About 20 people die every day in the U.S. after being hit by a car. To make walking safer, we need a big cultural shift in how we view pedestrian safety

With wildfires happening more often and burning more area, homes need to be “hardened” to make them more fire-resistant

This tiny instrument lets users taste things—without actually eating them—by releasing a combination of chemicals that reconstruct different tastes. But replicating associated smells and textures will take some time

Highway widening projects usually don’t solve congestion, but less expensive toll programs known as congestion pricing can. Here’s why

A genetic tweak keeps potatoes efficient in the heat

Two years of experimentation taught a Nashville guitarist not every musical myth makes sense

We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new strategies

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, owes his superstar success to self-satisfied competitors who blew obvious opportunities

After decades of work, physicists have finally broken into the atom to build the first nuclear clock

By canceling congestion pricing for drivers in New York City, the governor of New York State will hurt many retirees, who need the mass transport investments the move promised

Programmable liquids could aid robot grippers, shock absorption, acoustics, and more

Students should learn about both the natural world and human-made—or engineered—one we live in