- Activities that boost spatial reasoning | Educanda
- Use spatial language in everyday interactionsSpatial language is a powerful spatial learning tool. Preschoolers do better in spatial activities when parents use words such as triangle, big, tall, b…
- Laser capable of emitting light quiet enough to move demanding scientific applications — ScienceDaily
- There is a push to move the performance of high-end lasers onto photonic micro-chips, dramatically reducing cost and size while making the technology available to a wide range of applications inclu…
- Robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga: Machine-learning approach could help robots assemble cellphones and other small parts in a manufacturing line — ScienceDaily
- The Jenga-playing robot demonstrates something that’s been tricky to attain in previous systems: the ability to quickly learn the best way to carry out a task, not just from visual cues, as it is…
- 6 Ways to Engineer Holiday Fun at Home — Start Engineering
- bring smiles to kids and also impart some learning benefits. So we imposed two stiff tests on our list of seasonal engineering-based activities shared below: it had to be short, and it had to tickl…
- Explore Engineering
- March is National Engineering Month in Canada, an opportunity for you to discover the world of engineering and where your skills and interests can fit in.
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- Groundbreaking new reusable adhesive works underwater — ScienceDaily
- Researchers have introduced a new cutting-edge reusable adhesive that activates in seconds, works underwater, and is strong enough to deadlift 11 pounds: shape memory polymers (SMPs).
- Electricity-free air con: Thermoacoustic device turns waste heat into cold using no additional power
- Beginning with the principles of the Stirling engine, SoundEnergy’s THEAC thermal acoustic engine takes heat – either industrial waste heat or solar heat – and turns it into powerful coolin…
- The first tendril-like soft robot able to climb — ScienceDaily
- Researchers have made the first soft robot mimicking plant tendrils: it is able to curl and climb, using the same physical principles determining water transport in plants. In the future this tendr…
- From toilet to brickyard: Recycling biosolids to make sustainable bricks: Fired-clay bricks incorporating biosolids could be a sustainable solution for both the wastewater treatment and brickmaking…
- Around 30 percent of the world’s biosolids are stockpiled or sent to landfill each year, while over 3 billion cubic meters of clay soil is dug up for the global brickmaking industry. Using bios…
- Printable: Giraffe, Ele and Lion – make a mobile? | the ReFab Diaries
- Print off a couple of each and then follow these directions to make your own mobile. Get the Giraffe, the Lion, the Ele and many more from Canon’s promotional site.
- Paper Zoo: Elephant – Beginner Series – Toys – Paper Craft – Canon Creative Park
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