Civil & Environmental Engineering

Water treatment plant at sunset. | iStock/tuachanwatthana

Aug 4, 2017

Engineers develop planning tool to help dry regions replenish aquifers

Environment Issue #28

Instead of relying on silicon-based devices, a new chip uses carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cells. | Courtesy

Jul 11, 2017

A new ‘high rise’ chip breaks computing’s data bottleneck in two ways

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society Issue #26

In California's Central Valley, a group of students designed a development that combines low income housing and commercial services. | Image by the designers

Jun 27, 2017

“This is the future of architectural design”

Technology & Society Issue #26

Monterey Bay | iStock/fdastudillo

Jun 26, 2017

DNA left by ocean animals provides a rare glimpse of marine ecosystems

Environment Issue #25

An artist's rendering shows a moon base created by 3D printing. New research aims to use a similar process to create a habitat for Mars. | Photo ESA

May 2, 2017

A new technique could help turn Mars or moon rocks into concrete

Materials

A steel truss cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state | iStock/shanecotee

Apr 28, 2017

When bridges collapse: Are we underestimating the risk?

Environment, Security, Technology & Society

A bio-inspired approach | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Apr 20, 2017

John Dabiri: Technology inspired by nature

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society

What can we expect the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy to look like? | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Apr 20, 2017

Looking to the past for clues on the future of energy

Energy, Environment Issue #21

A computer model suggests how to safeguard San Francisco's water network dedicated to fire-fighting. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Apr 11, 2017

A risk assessment of San Francisco’s fire-fighting water system

Environment, Security Issue #20

Re-inventing the nation's urban water infrastructure | iStock/cesaria1

Mar 28, 2017

Richard Luthy: Reinventing the water supply for dry cities

Environment, Health Issue #19

Using new turbines and arranging them in different ways, researchers hope to generate wind power more efficiently. | Image by Dabiri Lab, Stanford

Jan 13, 2017

How can we extract the most energy from the wind?

Energy Issue #15

| iStock / Victor Deschamps

Dec 13, 2016

Craig Criddle: The case for replacing cracked pipes with smart sewers

Energy, Environment Issue #14

| iStock / Luis Cerdeira

Dec 13, 2016

Mark Jacobson: The future of energy impacts the future of our cities

Energy, Environment Issue #14

Crack in the pavement | iStock/rxijian

Dec 6, 2016

Anne Kiremidjian: A resilient city is a sustainable city

Environment, Technology & Society Issue #12

iStock/leszekglasner

Dec 5, 2016

Building-information modeling can transform how we create cities

Environment, Technology & Society

What do we want from our cities? | Image credit: iStock/Saklakova

Dec 5, 2016

Mike Lepech: How do you quantify urban quality of life?

Environment, Technology & Society

How do we re-engineer urban environments for the future? | iStock/maxsattana

Oct 20, 2016

How do we ensure that humanity flourishes in the cities of the future?

Environment, Health, Technology & Society Issue #10

Perry McCarty has devoted his career to developing new environmental processes to turn wastewater into clean water. | Reuters/Bob Smith

Oct 3, 2016

“He has advanced environmental engineering and science as no other”

Environment Issue #6

A blacktip shark swims above a shallow reef of primarily dead coral skeletons at Palmyra Atoll. | Photo by Brian Zgliczynski, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Sep 16, 2016

How do wave dynamics and water flows affect coral reefs?

Environment Issue #15

A researcher holds a small, nanostructured device that uses sunlight to disinfect water. | Photo by Jin Xie/Stanford University

Aug 17, 2016

Engineers invent a device that purifies water quickly using sun power

Environment, Health Issue #9

A new computer vision system automates the collection of data about building interiors for remodeling projects. | Illustration courtesy of Iro Armeni

Jun 29, 2016

A new computer vision system creates 3-D maps of building interiors

Environment, Technology & Society Issue #2

Arun Majumdar speaking at TEDx Stanford |Courtesy Stanford University

Jun 6, 2016

Arun Majumdar: What is the biggest challenge of the 21st-century?

Energy Issue #101

Groups of animals have this whole-is-greater-than-the-parts effect. | REUTERS/Peter Andrews

Jun 1, 2016

The movements of fish and birds inspire wind power generation improvement

Transportation & Robotics Issue #67

An elevated roadway damaged during the earthquake that struck off the Pacific coast of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 17, 2016 | REUTERS/Henry Romero

May 25, 2016

Eduardo Miranda: Surveying the damage caused by Ecuador’s earthquake

Environment