Why does traffic bottleneck on freeways for no apparent reason?
Can traditional gasoline-powered cars be converted to run on hydrogen fuel cells?
You can get answers to these and many other questions via MIT's most recent webtheme called "Ask an engineer", which leads you to MIT Engineering Website.
The site streams questions about science and engineering frequently asked by visitors who either come to MIT or browse its webpages. Most interesting part of this stream is the fact that questions are answered by MIT Engineering faculty. Streaming answers in simple and informal way helps explain "day to day" applicability of cutting edge research conducted at MIT. For each of the questions you can get "one-sentence" answer, an expanded explanation and credible references if you choose to explore such topic further. Each answer also helps you understand who among MIT faculty conducts research in the given field.
"Ask an Engineer" is a simple and effective communication tool that helps bridge people's interest in science, technology and everyday life with wide spectrum of state of the art research at MIT. Some of these research topics pioneered decades ago and we just do not realize these connections, for other topics it may take a decade before actual results can become part of our everyday life.
If you would like to submit your own question, you may do so at http://engineering.mit.edu/ask/submit_question.php .
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