Book and media reviews from the journal Science, edited by Valerie Thompson.

Valerie Thompson, Editor

Posts tagged with "Engineering"

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  Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures
  Roma Agrawal

  Book Engineering

  An approachable introduction to structural engineering entertains and inspires

  5 March, 2018

  Roma Agrawal’s Built is a full-throated celebration of structural engineering, interspersed with clearly explained, hand-illustrated lessons on engineering fundamentals, including statics, fluids, and strength of materials. She is passionate about her profession, and with carefully curated and beautifully narrated historical and contemporary examples, she reveals the nuts and bolts of engineerin… Read More
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  Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
  Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp

  Book Engineering, Young Readers

  Beauty and the Beak

  5 December, 2017

  In 2005, an emaciated eagle was discovered outside of a landfill in Alaska. She had been shot in the face, causing catastrophic damage to her upper beak. Such a grim story may seem a strange foundation on which to build a book for children, but the tale takes a happier turn when the raptor, nicknamed… Read More
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  Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
  Neil Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld

  Book Engineering, Fabrication

  Three brothers anticipate the rise of digital fabrication

  21 November, 2017

  In Designing Reality, three brothers join together to tackle the topic of digital fabrication. Their core premise is that widespread technological and societal transformation is on the horizon as today’s simple three-dimensional (3D) printers give way to a new era of digitally designed materials and fabricator networks. Digital fabrication will drive a third digital revolution… Read More

• Exhibition Engineering, Robotics

  A new exhibition surveys five centuries of robotic invention

  27 March, 2017

  For at least five centuries, humans have been dreaming up intelligent robots to do our bidding: from performing mundane tasks to completing difficult or complex endeavors that we cannot do ourselves. This 500-year quest is the subject of a groundbreaking new exhibition, entitled Robots, at the Science Museum London. Crossing boundaries of time and geography… Read More

• Film Engineering

  Emphasizing service to people and the planet, a new documentary seeks to inspire the next engineers

  13 February, 2017

  Engineering has an image problem. The phrase “engineering disaster” rolls off the tongue, while great technical achievements are more often heralded as “scientific miracles.” Stereotypes of skinny white males with horn-rimmed glasses and pocket protectors continue to shape our ideas about who can become an engineer. Acknowledging the fact that the public and engineering students… Read More