When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

The California Science Center in Los Angeles is taking a road trip to a future city where solar power is beamed directly from outer space, smart buildings can generate their own power and are ...

In the FRONTLINE documentary Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages, residents of a coastal Alaska Native community called Hooper Bay confront a dilemma. Their way of life relies in part on harvesting ...

Documentaries by UAB students have been screened at the McWane Science Center for the last 24 years. Students work in small production teams to produce short documentary films about local issues and ...

Mats Järlström has an engineering degree from Sweden, but when he tried to share his idea to improve the formula used to calculate traffic-light timing with the Oregon State Board of Examiners for ...