Across science and culture, some of the most revealing stories begin with a simple problem: something appears where it should not be. Astronomers are confronting galaxies that look too big and too old ...
The Tartan’s annual election took place late into the night on Nov. 23, and by Nov. 25, the votes had been tallied and the winners announced. The new editorial staff has a size of 20, including ...
Tracking graduates’ earnings is just one way to measure the benefit of higher education, writes Daniel V. McGehee.
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America’s scariest bridges drivers still refuse to cross
Across the United States, a handful of bridges have earned a reputation so unnerving that some drivers will plan hours of ...
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Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education
Yet in business, research labs, design studios, hospitals and engineering firms, initiative is the quality employers most urgently need and cannot easily teach. Broader educational approaches help ...
The winds were blowing at 40 mph (64 km/h) across the Tacoma Narrows strait when "Galloping Gertie" began to bounce. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connected Tacoma, Washington, with the Kitsap ...
Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...
When we think of science in the World War II era, we tend to think of physics and engineering, as embodied in the Manhattan Project. But in his classic history, Psychologists on the March (1999), ...
AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Daniel J. Riccio Jr., a former leader at Apple, has donated $50 million to the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering, marking the largest gift in the ...
In a city filled to the brim with iconic buildings of both the ancient and not-so-ancient variety, the Colosseum of Rome stands apart from the rest. The ancient stadium, an arched, elliptical arena, ...
Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...
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