Society of Automotive Engineers preps race car
Next month, Carnegie Mellon’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) will compete in the Formula SAE, a premier international car racing event where teams...
World's most powerful X-ray laser to be built
Keith Hodgson of Stanford University flew to Pittsburgh last Monday to deliver the Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon, an annual physics presentation held...
Avian flu virus continues its flight westward
Since its discovery in Southeast Asia in 1997, Europe and the Americas have given relatively little attention to the avian flu, or H5N1 virus. Now, however,...
How Things Work: Pacemakers
“Lub-dub, lub-dub” is the sound of the heart pumping five liters of blood throughout the body every minute. Many people take it for granted that their...
Scitech Briefs
Hot-water worms Researchers at Harvard have discovered a species of worm that lives in the hottest water on earth, near undersea hot water vents where...