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Women have always had to fight for their place in engineering. Take the Afghan Girls Robotics Team. When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, most of the all-woman team fled Afghanistan, fearing (correctly) that the Islamic regime would bar women from attending school or enjoying other basic human rights. The “robot girls” have since …

A wildfire needs three elements to start: fuel, oxygen and a heat source — what firefighters call the fire triangle.  A flash drought provided the fuel. Strong winds from a passing hurricane supplied the oxygen. A powerline downed in dry grass took care of the rest.   Wildfires engulfed the historic oceanfront town of Lāhainā, Hawaii, …

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) has been a leader in battery and energy storage research since the late John Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UT Cockrell School of Engineering, helped invent the lithium-ion battery. Goodenough leaves behind big shoes to fill; however, his successors — over 30 researchers …