Fusion: Has Its Time Come?

When engineers work on bringing fusion power to reality, their sense of time tends to warp. When “tomorrow” means 50 years and “taking a minute” takes a decade, what does it mean when engineers say the future of fusion is now?

Graduating into a Recession

When newly minted engineers leave college, they hope to begin a long and satisfying career. We talk to engineers who have had the misfortune of graduating when jobs were scarce and learn from them what takes to overcome a recession.

Also: A heat shield that sweats, a collective of miniature robots that act as one, using horse manure as a feedstock, and an engineer who became a patent lawyer.