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Ashes of James Doohan of 'Star Trek' to be sent into space (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)LAS CRUCES, N.M. The ashes of James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty'' Scott on the original "Star Trek'' TV series, have been loaded into a rocket that is set to launch in New Mexico later this month. The remains of Doohan, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and some 200 others were loaded into the rocket Friday by Charles Chafer, chief executive of Celestis, a Texas company ...

Engineer urges students to study math and science to pursue scientific careers (The Standard-Times) DARTMOUTH ? For students at Friends Academy, Thursday's visit by scientist Adam Macksoud offered a tantalizing glimpse of what it's like to design and build the wide variety of machines that work beneath the surface of the ocean? everything...

New Homes Rise From Rubbish (Science Daily)Imagine if you could turn old rubbish into new houses. That's exactly what civil engineer Dr. John Forth in the School of Engineering wants to achieve with the invention of a building block made almost entirely of recycled glass, metal slag, sewage sludge, incinerator ash and pulverised fuel ash from power stations.

Ask the Experts: Does temperature affect the sound of a musical instrument? (Scientific American)Ypsilanti, Mich. Chris Rogers, a professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, and Jesse Jones, a musical instrument engineer, explain. Temperature can affect the sound of an instrument in a variety of ways, which are different for each instrument.

All aboard! Up front with a Metro-North engineer (The Journal News)Running a train is every little boy's - and some girls' - dream come true, but what's it really like sitting in that snug cab as you pull into and out of stations all day long?