Chester oil spill clearing up quicklyTheChronicleHerald.caAn oil spill from a private yacht in Chester Harbour that caused a viscous rainbow slick at the Chester Yacht Club Thursday looks worse than it is, the Canadian Coast Guard said Friday. There should …

Ars TechnicaThe auto engineering marvels at the Lane Motor Museum are ridiculously coolArs TechnicaWhen Ars was invited to do a test drive of the 2016 Chevrolet Cruze in Nashville, we wanted to make the most of our trip down south. Between playing the tour …

HackadayReverse Engineering the McDonald's French FryHackadayHe could easily buy cooked fries, but he needed the frozen fries from McDonald's to begin his reverse engineering. McDonald's refused to sell him uncooked fries, “They just don't …

For the first time, a US college had more female engineering graduates than menScienceAlertWhile more and more women have been enrolling in engineering courses over the past decade, this is reportedly the first time graduating females have outweighed males …

Chess player tops sports quota in engineering counsellingThe HinduVarshini V, a chess player who has represented the country in several championships, topped the sportspersons category in Anna University's single- window counselling for engineering adm …

Concord MonitorMajority of Dartmouth engineering degrees given to women – a first in the countryConcord MonitorThe accomplishment is eye-opening, since only one-fifth of all engineering undergraduate degrees in the U.S. are awarded to women, but it may not …

Engineering students compete for hybrid, electric car titlesNews & ObserverDartmouth College is launching its 10th annual Formula Hybrid Competition at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. College engineering graduate and undergraduate students race electric …

TheChronicleHerald.caOil prices fall, loonie risesTheChronicleHerald.caTORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed with a modest gain Friday but remained in the red for the week as a whole after an early triple-digit advance evaporated. Canada's main mar …

Business Wire (press release)SolarWindow Appoints Patrick Sargent as Vice President, Product Development ...Business Wire (press release)A mechanical engineer, Mr. Patrick T. Sargent earned his Mechanical and Industrial Engineering undergraduate degrees fr …

Phys.OrgOcean engineering students study impact of rising sea levelsPhys.OrgThe students teamed up with Malcolm Spaulding, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at URI who has created a computer-based program called STORMTOOLS that gives property owners …