Celebrate Engineering Week

What better way to celebrate engineering week than with this video of materials engineering students at the University of British Columbia, Canada? This is their FilmfEUSt entry for Engineering-Week 2015. Directed by Narain Khera.

Helicopter drop test

This crash test of a small, lightweight helicopter at Langley Research Center was a smashing success, literally—just as NASA engineers had predicted.    

Better understanding of steel fracturing

Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, visualized step-by-step and on a microscopic level how certain steels fracture when extreme loads are applied to them.

Gentle shake creates elusive roton in superfluid

Scientists discovered in 1937 that liquid helium-4, when chilled to extremely low temperatures, becomes a superfluid that could leak through glass, overflow its containers, or eternally gush like a fountain.