Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

The Moon is drawing new attention—not for space exploration, but for resource extraction. A rare isotope called helium-3, embedded in its surface dust, has become a focus for governments, tech ...

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Engineers are developing a concept for interstellar travel using a swarm of 1,000 ultra-light "laser sails." The mission aims to send these sails to Proxima b, an exoplanet 4.25 light-years away, ...

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to ...

Juneau Paulsen (far right) and Ellie Taplin (left of Paulsen), both UW mechanical engineering majors, help direct the diver in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) from the NBL control room. The ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Ohio State started scoring efforts against Wisconsin with some fireworks coming from a circus-like catch from wide receiver Carnell Tate. Rolling slightly out of the pocket on Ohio State's first drive ...

Top-ranked Ohio State hits the road for a second consecutive week on Oct. 18, with a game at unranked Wisconsin. The Buckeyes defeated Illinois 34-16 on Oct. 11. Ohio State is 6-0 overall and 3-0 in ...

Frustration from Wisconsin Badgers fans over the football team's struggles is boiling up to the top of the organization chart. What started as Camp Randall Stadium chants to "Fire Fickell" have moved ...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is employing the work of a unique robot dog at the Kellner Family Athletic Center’s construction site near Camp Randall. The robot is a part of a study led by ...