Tag: airplanes
Air traffic controller shortages in Newark and other airports partly reflect...
Melanie Dickman, The Ohio State University and Brian Strzempkowski, The Ohio State University
Air traffic controllers have been in...
The science behind airplane deicing – a mechanical engineer explains how...
Andrew Sommers, Miami University
If you are a frequent flyer, you’ve probably been at the airport waiting to jet...
How do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
Craig Merrett, Clarkson University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
The sky’s the limit: A brief history of in-flight entertainment
Olusola Adewumi John, University of Regina https://narrations.ad-auris.com/widget/the-conversation-canada/the-skys-the-limit-a-brief-history-of-in-flight-entertainment
As the winter holidays draw near, many of us are already booking...
Machines can’t always take the heat − two engineers explain the...
Srinivas Garimella, Georgia Institute of Technology and Matthew T. Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Not only people need...
Electric planes are coming: Short-hop regional flights could be running on...
Gökçin Çınar, University of Michigan
Electric planes might seem futuristic, but they aren’t that far off, at least for...
Boeing: why the Ukraine crisis could help it become the world’s...
Joseph Mellors, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Boeing has faced a lot of bad press in recent years, and deservedly so....
How 5G puts airplanes at risk – an electrical engineer explains
Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State
New high-speed cellphone services have raised concerns of interference with aircraft operations, particularly as aircraft...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
