Engineering

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Museum of Science, Boston Distributes Free STEM Activity Kits to Students in Malden Public Schools

EiE®, the Museum of Science, Boston’s award-winning curricula division is providing 2,500 Engineering is Elementary® Try It! Kits for students in Malden Public Schools ahead of February school vacation
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What Do You Do When Your Space Station Careens Out of Control?

What happened when inadvertent thruster firing caused the International Space Station to spin completely around? Though the situation was rapidly brought under control, it was a harrowing day for those on the station as well as the ground controllers...
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Making it to Mars: MOXIE

MOXIE, part of NASA’s Perseverance rover, is going to find out if it’s possible to generate oxygen literally out of thin (Martian) air!
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How Big Were the Apollo Moon Landing Computers?

It's National Engineers Week! To celebrate, we talked with Apollo engineer Don Eyles about the challenge of landing humans on the moon.
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Making it to Mars: Where's the Oxygen?

Learn how Mars’s atmosphere is different from Earth’s and why it’s one of the things that makes putting humans on Mars so difficult.
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Making it to Mars: Challenges

Getting humans to Mars has been a goal of NASA's for decades. But it comes with challenges! Learn what they are and more in this Sparks of Science video from #MOSatHome at the Museum of Boston.
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Top Ten Science Stories of 2020: Part Three

We're back with more of our annual countdown of the ten most exciting, important, and fun stories from the world of science in 2020.
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Can We Restore Mobility to Spinal Injury Patients?

Biomedical Engineer Dr. Parag Gad tells us about a noninvasive technique that can help paralyzed patients regain the use of their extremities as well as other systems of the body.
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Who Engineers Biomedical Devices?

We chat with Akshita Rao, an undergraduate at Tufts University, about her biomedical engineering research on the human heart.
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Who Gets to Drive the Mars Rover?

How do you drive a rover from 40 million miles away? In part two of our conversation, we asked NASA engineer Rich Rieber about how the newest robot to explore Mars will get around.
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How Do You Land a Robot on Mars?

NASA's newest rover is on its way to Mars. We asked engineer David Way, who designed the landing system, how it will touch down safely on the red planet.
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Does Astronaut Food Taste Good?

We chat with Food Technologist Michelle Richardson about engineering healthy and appetizing meals for astronauts bound for Mars.
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What Is Synthetic Biology?

Dr. Natalie Kuldell, director of BioBuilder and affiliate of MIT's Department of Biological Engineering, answers questions about biological engineering and its applications. Learn about manipulating DNA to produce new drugs, inserting genes into bacteria...