SciFri Radio: General Engineering

SciFri Radio: Searching For Meaning In A Cheap Toaster
Author Thomas Thwaites discusses his quest to build a simple toaster from scratch, starting with iron ore.

SciFri Radio: Water Striders Don’t Stride, They Row
Mechanical engineer David Hu filmed water striders gliding on food coloring and built his own robostrider.

SciFri Radio: Video Pick: Flywheel Bicycle
Maxwell von Stein, a 22 year-old Cooper Union grad, built a bicycle that uses a flywheel to store energy.

SciFri Radio: Technology's Odd Couple Teams Up For Science
Musician will.i.am and inventor Dean Kamen are working together to get kids interested in robotics.

SciFri Radio: Switching The Energy Economy Of San Antonio
In a state known for oil, can a city change its energy habits?

SciFri Radio: Growing The Technology For Artificial Leaves
Daniel Nocera of MIT explains the science of 'artificial photosynthesis.'

SciFri Radio: Dean Kamen
He's invented everything from an insulin pump to the Segway Transporter. He started the FIRST Robotics competitions for students. And now, he has...

SciFri Radio: Green Building
How can you make your building design greener?

SciFri Radio: Concrete and Carbon
How big a role does concrete manufacture play in greenhouse gas emissions? New research says it may be less than previously thought.

SciFri Radio: A Big Solar Deal for California
Earlier this month, Southern California Edison announced a deal with solar power plant maker BrightSource to install and operate solar power plants...

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SciFri Newsbriefs: General Engineering

Newsbrief: Garbage Truck 2.0
Part refinery, part generator, a new portable machine eats trash and makes fuel.

Newsbrief: Better Off Bumpy
At one atom thick, graphene is as thin as it gets, but it's not flat.

Newsbrief: Sounds Appetizing
Termites use sound to determine what's for dinner.

Newsbrief: Just One Word
There may indeed be a great future in plastics. A researcher is working on a recipe for a plastic that dissolves in seawater.

Newsbrief: Crystal Ball
Researchers have grown a crystal that bends in light. Under the right rays, the crystal can even catapult a gold ball ninety times heavier than...

Newsbrief: A Material that Mends Itself
A new polymer, modeled after human skin, can repair itself when it breaks. It's all in the capillaries, the researchers say.

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