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Being capable of doing your job isn’t enough for some tech workers in China who have been reduced to hunks and beauties in advertisements design...

You love your engineering job. And why wouldn’t you? Engineers are typically in greater demand in the workplace, can command higher salaries and...

This week, I wanted to share something a little different. My colleague Marie found this excellent news piece on a collaboration between National Geog...

Alene Durek was the first female admiral in the U.S. Navy after rising her way through the ranks of the Navy Nurse Corps. She was born in Defiance, O...

This month's IEEE GlobalSpec challenge question is: Left alone, I'm a word with five letters. I'm honest and fair, I'll admit. Rearranged, I'm of n...

This month's IEEE GlobalSpec newsletter challenge is: When played separately, the probability of losing each of two different coin-toss games is high...

The Spanish submarine navy is small – currently operating only three French-built, Agosta-class, S-70 submarines. During the 1980’s, when...

“Watch your units!” Unit conversion errors can be found most anywhere, even in Japan and Canada. For Part 3 of this series, we will look a...

I recently had a conversation with a colleague who uses a backpack tracker for her first grader. The conversation came up because we were meeting wh...

Every day, my five-year-old comes home from kindergarten with math homework. Every. Single. Day. My guess is that all the attention on STEM in rece...

When I think of molasses, I think of the brown, thick, sticky, syrupy stuff my mother stored in her refrigerator. My father would wait, for what seeme...

Forty-five years ago on December 28, 1973, the three-man crew of the Skylab 4 space station made history by effectively taking an unscheduled day off....

We're resolved to stump you with these! This could be our toughest one yet. What is it? (Besides kind of gross-looking.)

Your job is to make educated [or uneducated] guesses at what this, ummm...thing, is. So tell me CR4, what is it?

Perhaps more practical than the great white shark tracking app I downloaded a few years ago comes a new app that can identify bed bugs and offer sugge...

Although the British rock band Queen has never totally faded since their 1970 founding, the band and its members have been especially newsworthy latel...

Yesterday's software update included a change to the amount of time available for users to edit posts. We've increased this time allowance from 10 to...

As part of a larger project to eliminate broken links across all IEEE GlobalSpec sites, we've been working on links in CR4 posts and comments. We know...

Last week I headed south from Albany to attend my high school reunion. Both my starting point (Albany International Airport) and my destination (McGhe...

Last week at the start of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup, the national team defeated Saudi Arabia 5 to 0 in Moscow, setting in motion the next 30 days...