By Katherine Federici Greenwood
Most people avoid jellyfish. The slimy creatures can disrupt an otherwise perfect beach day — chasing swimmers out of the water to get away from their stinging tentacles. John Dabiri ’01, however, seeks them out. For him, they are a source of inspiration.
Dubbed the “jellyfish engineer” by Popular Science magazine, which named [...]

By Chris Emery
Posted Jul 16, 2009
Biofuels derived from renewable sources can be produced in large quantities and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but only if they are made from certain sources, according to a new article by a team of scientists and policy experts that included several Princeton researchers.
“The world needs to replace fossil [...]

10.28.2009
by Rebecca Day
You wouldn’t fly on a commercial jet plane unless you were confident that the pilot had logged some serious time in a flight simulator, preparing for every eventuality. Someday it may be just as inconceivable to undergo delicate surgery without assurances that your doctor has taken a few practice runs on a three-dimensional, [...]

In the Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon, the professor of iconology and symbology at Harvard University, deciphered the secret hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci to find the holy grail. In reality, Maurizio Seracini is on a quest to find one of the holy grails in art history - Da Vinci’s lost painting [...]

Gianluca Mantovano’s favorite part of the tours he gives prospective students is what he calls the “grand finale.” It’s a look at the Myers Student Automotive Center in the Engineering Centers Building—home to the six University of Wisconsin-Madison vehicle teams and a major part of Mantovano’s daily life.
“This is the team I’m on,” the mechanical [...]

Extract a finite length of space; divide it into halves, then into quarters, then into eighths…… After infinite number of divisions, what will remain? A tiny “space atom” that has an infinitesimal, albeit finite length? Absurd, for an infinite number of finite lengths adds up to an infinite length. A “space point” that has no [...]