Bill Simpkin (left) is working with UTA engineering professor Donald Wilson (right) and students including Warren Freitas on his idea of using nuclear plants’ excess heat to power former coal power ...

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Emil E. Werstler of Manchester, who worked on the design for many advances in jet engines while an engineer at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for more than 30 years, died May 3 at his home following a long ...

One Princeton Professor has a lofty goal: end the nation's reliance on oil for jet travel. With potentially major benefits for energy security and the environment riding upon his success, he is ...

Stoves have evolved quite a bit in recent years. We’ve seen the advent of induction stovetops and smart kitchen appliances—but what of the actual cast iron pots we put on top of them? “What really has ...

I spend a lot of time with jet engines as part of my PhD, trying to improve them. This one is a Concorde engine — it’s a demonstration model that’s used to show where the various components of the ...

SpaceX almost died aboard a C-17 jet above Hawaii. In 2008, before the company had successfully launched a single rocket, two dozen SpaceX engineers were transporting its Falcon 1 rocket to Hawaii ...

The jet that outran its era did more than set speed records; it rewrote the rules of how humans could move, spy and survive ...

The 2010 jet crash that killed Poland's president, first lady and dozens of dignitaries during a politically sensitive visit to Russia couldn't have happened the way official investigations say, a ...

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...

Princeton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fred Dryer has a lofty goal: end the nation's reliance on oil for jet travel. With potentially major benefits for energy security and the ...