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World’s Most Powerful Underwater Tide-Riding Turbines To Power 15,000 Homes

By: Elio Escalante, Journalist

The world's most potent underwater turbine uses ocean tides to create energy enough to power 15,000 homes each year. It works by turning blades with the movement of tides, producing over 2 megawatts...

Worlds Most Powerful Under Water Turbine

By: Maxwell McCall, Journalist

Underwater turbines that are also named marine turbines are a technology for renewable energy. The movement of water turns blades that make energy and can be an ideal prototype for energy production.

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Scientists Electrify Water To Create Carbon

By: Jordan Jeon, Journalist

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found a way to use seawater to create a new kind of cement that can help fight climate change. This new cement is made by using electricity to turn seawater into a material that absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.

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Engineering the Impossible: The Deep-Sea Sub That Conquered the Mariana Trench

By: Ghet Hmeda, Journalist

In 2012, filmmaker James Cameron went down 7 miles to the Mariana Trench, which is our planet's lowest spot! He took a specially built submarine, the Deepsea Challenger, which was designed by engineers to be able to take crushing pressure.

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Plastic Bottles

By: Aidan Seguin, Journalist

Plastic bottles are a staple in our everyday routines, used for everything from drinks to household cleaning products. To truly appreciate their importance, it's worthwhile to explore how they are made and how technology has transformed these containers over time.

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The Great Molasses Flood

By: Ghet Hmeda, Journalist

Children played in the streets, workers took their lunch breaks, and horses pulled wagons down the cobblestone roads. But something strange was about to happen—something that no one could have ever expected.

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Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge

By: Merlique Coote, Journalist

Aimed to last over a century, this $18.8 billion architectural masterpiece – consisting of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands.

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The Invention of Flippers

By: Kaden Brock, Journalist

Frenchman Louis De Corlieu developed the modern swim fin in the early 1900's and eventually know as swimming propellers used in naval applications. Swimming fins had many advancements over the years and was revolutionary to the human advancement.

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Tidal Energy

By: Laith Kassim, Journalist

Tidal energy is a type of renewable energy powered by the movement of ocean tides. Tidal power is a type of hydroelectric energy, and is harnessed by tidal streams generators, barrages, and tidal lagoons.

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How A Boat Works

By: Levani Goshua, Journalist

The principle known as buoyancy, derived from Archimedes' Principle, explains why boats float. Buoyancy is the upward force exerted by a fluid on an object submerged. It states that when an object is partially or fully immersed into a liquid, the upward force or buoyant force exerted on the body is equal to the weight of the fluid which that body displaces.

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Flood Wall

By: Olmer Andrade Lemus, Journalist

Flood walls protect us from the danger and damage from floods. Floods are a very dangerous natural disaster; they can affect human lives and put humans in danger. Flooding can also affect the environment...

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

By: Benjamin Plowgian, Journalist

Ocean Thermal Conversion Technology (OTEC), is a renewable power source as old as electricity. It is a baseload source, meaning that there are no fluctuations, so it is a reliable source of energy unlike other renewable sources.

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