Engineering News

When Enrique Peña Nieto was sworn in as Mexican president last December, he promised to boost Mexico’s science and technology infrastructure. One year later, the Mexican Congress approved a 20% rise in the 2014 budget of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico City.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation to review two batteries fires in Tesla Motors Model S sedans. There have been three reports of fires in six weeks that have prompted concerns about safety of the electric cars.

A team of Columbia Engineering researchers have taken advantage of graphene’s special properties and have developed a nano-mechanical system that can produce FM signals and created the world’s smallest FM radio transmitter.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has set a comment deadline for its proposal to eliminate the UHF discount. Comments will be due no later than December 16, 2013 with reply comments due no later than January 13, 2014.

The Federal Communications Commission has released its first public version of the FCC Speed Test app for Android smartphones and it is available free of charge from the Google Play Store.

An exciting and bold new exhibition on the Large Hadron Collider has opened this week at the Science Museum in London, UK. The exhibition is translating a complex subject – the discovery of the Higgs boson – into something the layman will not only understand but also find interesting.