In Melissa Hill¹s class at Knight Enloe Elementary School in Roanoke, Alabama, kindergarteners were issued MIT-programmed tablets without any instructions. Credit: Andy Isaacson

Are Tablets the Way Out of Child Illiteracy?

April 29, 2015

SMITHSONIAN | Give them technology that they may have never seen before, and students' brains will work wonders.

THE MAVERICK: Engineer Graham Hawkes and his team show off their latest invention: Super Falcon. Credit: Douglas Adesko — THE MAVERICK: Engineer Graham Hawkes and his team show off their latest invention: *Super Falcon*. Credit: Douglas Adesko

The 36,201 FT (Deep) Man

April 28, 2015

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE | It was one of the last great feats of exploration: Diving alone, in a sub, to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. For three years the quest consumed an idealistic engineer and a single-minded record-setter. This is their untold story.

A scientist from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography dives around a sunken Corsair. Credit: Scripps

The Robotic Search For Lost World War II Airmen

April 21, 2015

POPULAR SCIENCE | World War II combat pilots have been lost at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean for nearly 70 years. Now autonomous robots have been deployed to find them.

Mate Rimac and the Concept One. Credit: Andy Isaacson

Engineer Mate Rimac Revolutionizes Electric Cars

April 15, 2015

WSJ. | The young Croatian built the fastest electric car in the world. Now his innovative designs are being licensed by manufacturers building the next generation of supercars.