ISSUES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ELECTRON DIFFRACTION EXPERIMENTS

The measurements were achieved

thanks to the McGill team's

development of instrumentation

that could be used by scientists in

a variety of disciplines: to examine

the fleeting but crucial

transformations during chemical

reactions, for example, or to

enable biologists to obtain an

atomic-level understanding of

protein function.

ANTI-TURBULENCE TECHNOLOGY

Inspired by nature's own

anti-turbulence devices

feathers researchers

have developed an

innovative system that

could spell the end of

turbulence on flights.

NASA CREATING A VIRTUAL

TELESCOPE

Although scientists have flown

two spacecraft in formation, no

one ever has aligned the

spacecraft with a specific

astronomical target and then

held that configuration to make

a scientific observation --

creating, in effect, a single or

"virtual" telescope with two

distinctly different satellites

FIRST PROTEIN MICROFIBER

Researchers at the New York

University Polytechnic School of

Engineering have broken new

ground in the development of

proteins that form specialized fibers

used in medicine and

nanotechnology. For as long as

scientists have been able to create

new proteins that are capable of self-

assembling into fibers, their work

has taken place on the nanoscale