Archive for February, 2009

Cyberwar

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

 

 
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It’s a new kind of war. Fighting with bits and bytes instead of bullets and bombs — cyberwar, today on Engineering Works!
The tiny Baltic country of Estonia seems to be the first battlefield in this new kind of war. Computer engineers and security experts have worried about cyberwar for years. But nobody had ever started [...]

Underground

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

 
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There must be a joke here somewhere, but engineers are working on a better way to look into holes in the ground. We’ll see what’s going on, today on Engineering Works!
Unless we’re planting shrubs in the yard, most of us don’t spend much time thinking about holes in the ground. Some [...]

Water bridge

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

 

 
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People have been building bridges for thousands of years, but there’s never been a bridge quite like a new one in Germany. We’ll check it out, today on Engineering Works!
Think about famous bridges and what do you get? The Golden Gate Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge. Verrazano-Narrows. If you’re an engineer, you might come up with [...]