Photo: Elizabeth Lockwood/health.mil Soldiers and Marines fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the news almost every day. Some are wounded. Badly. We’ll look at how engineers are helping them put their lives back together. Today, on Engineering...

Image: bigod/Flickr.com Nuclear energy has been in the doghouse for decades. But now it’s getting another look from policy-makers. We’ll look, too. Today, on Engineering Works! People in the United States have always been a little...

  Image: fdecomite/Flickr.com We’re going to do this one on time. Come along with us as we figure out how. Atomic clocks, today on Engineering Works! Time never stops. We’ve been keeping track of it for a long time, and we’ve done...

Photo: Ayelie/Flickr Most of us use quite a bit of electricity. Probably more than you think. We’ll count it up. Today, on Engineering Works. It’s easy to think of big ways to keep down how much electricity we use. Compact fluorescent...

Image: Dieter Drescher We’ve all come across things that just don’t make sense, even though they work. Engineers do, too. We’ll look at one, today on Engineering Works! If you’ve been to a big concert, or a ball game, with a...