Fracking could be banned in Maryland
Fracking has helped some companies extract oil and gas from the Earth, but it has also left permanent damage to the Earth's crust in its wake.
Engineering
Baltimore schools getting a/c, money: comptroller
Baltimore Co. and Balto. city got some school construction money last month at the annual beg-a-thon, thanks to plans to install air conditioning.
Why would you move a solar-powered home?
Solar power is hard to save for a rainy day, mainly because we can't store it efficiently in chemical bonds, the way nature stores energy.
Girls in Belvidere sure know how to build a motor
Some high school competitions actually involve more traditional life skills, like how to fix your car when it breaks down.
Revolutionary fabric from Stanford cools like A/C
Air conditioning is needed to keep us cool, but could a new fabric, developed at Stanford, cool us as efficiently?
Students devise a tracheotomy device for soldiers
A team of students at Johns Hopkins invented a device that could make cricothyrotomies more successful on the battlefield and in civilian life.
Service learning hours lead to a Rubik’s Cube club
The world record for Rubik's Cube fell in Maryland last month, but for other speed cubers, it's done in the name of service and fun.
Volkswagen admits to cheating on emissions tests
VW admitted they engineered emission-control technology in order to get around certain emission laws in the US and elsewhere.
Can you fly a drone over a school?
We wonder whether it would be allowed to fly a drone over a school. You can't fly them over airports, but we're not sure about schools.
Girls make shoes at W.Va. engineering camp
A W.Va. camp lets girls show their talents in fashion and explore engineering in designing shoes. Other STEM subjects were also explored.