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New Award Could Become Nobel for Engineering At Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth presented her first ever Prize for Engineering, including one million British pounds, to Americans Robert Kahn and Vincent Cerf, and Frenchman Louis Pouzin for inventi...
Technology Report - Event Aims to Build Interest in Science, Engineering This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last week we reported on Microsoft Corporations Imagine Cup finals in the United States. Team FlashFood from Arizona State Uni...
This is Scientific American 60-Second Science.I am Steve Mersky, got a minute? Phoenix has landed! Phoenix has landed! Welcome to the northern plains of Mars. That was the Jet Propulsion Laboratorys Richard Kornfeld, Sunday at 7:53pm eastern time, ac...
According to a study published this week in Science, genetically-engineered cotton planted near conventional crops may help protect the regular plants from bugs. The researchers say the finding could potentially protect a range of crops over million...
Engineer and inventor Martin Fisher has applied his passion for improving things to the challenge of eliminating poverty in rural Africa. As Maura Farrelly reports, his non-profit organization is transforming the lives of thousands of poor African f...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 September 2007 The space age began 50 years ago this October, when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, sparking a U.S.-Soviet space race. Scientists and engineers gathered at the California...
By Philip Graitcer Atlanta, Georgia 14 August 2007 A robot playing a modified game of football Many people think of robots that think and act like human as the stuff of the future or characters in science fiction movies. But a recent competition at a...
By Phuong Tran Nouakchott, Mauritania 13 July 2007 French engineer Jean Sahuc arrived in West Africa in the early 1950's to oversee the building of Mauritania's capital. Almost 50 years after he laid the first foundation stones in Nouakchott, Sahuc t...
By Rebecca Ward Washington 06 January 2006 H1 Bees Skrikanth Devarajan came to the United States on an H-1-B visa allowing him to work in the high-tech industry. But the Indian-born computer engineer...