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The article reports on a team of engineers from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to figure out the mystery of lunar ice and the plan of NASA to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2020. It states that water is a key element in the grand schemes of the agency, because it can be broken down into oxygen for moon bases. Dan Andrews and other engineers from Ames Research Center of the blue ice team have won the project to probe the polar craters of the moon for water.

The article presents information on Christopher Higgins, structural engineer at Oregon State University's Kiewit Center. It is stated that Chris Higgins has destroyed more bridges than any flood or earthquake. As a structural engineer, he casts concrete bridge parts and exposes them to stresses that cause real-world bridges to fail, such as repeated freeze-and-thaw cycles and the weight and pressure of traffic loads.

The article reports that to address the shortfall in blood supply the U.S. Defense Department's advanced project agency, DARPA, has commissioned a medical company to build a fully automated machine able to make new blood. It is stated that Cleveland-based Arteriocyte Inc. has received nearly $2 million to perfect a "blood pharming" system that grows red blood cells in a three-dimensional matrix of nanofibers that replicates bone marrow.

The article features the meteor and spacecraft replica of Chuck Cornelison, National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)Ballistic Range Complex manager in the U.S. With the use of loaded projectile and nylon sabot gun, the gas drives the projectile out of the barrel has been perceived to be the only one that can tilt up to 90 degrees in the world. A high pressure hydrogen is being directed when the larger diameter pump tube is being transitioned to the smaller diameter gun barrel.

The article provides information on the spacecraft in Russia which is going to be used on mission to retrieve soil samples from Phobos, a moon in Mars. Planetary Society (PS) is noted to be the ones to sponsor its pioneering experiment which will launch in the late 2009. Meanwhile, an elaborate systematic plan for its launches is likewise provided.

The article reports that the growing databases of animal genes have given wildlife researchers a tool to identify new species protect endangered animals and even catch cheats at fishing tournaments. Scott Baker and colleagues at Oregon State University have combined genetic research with spycraft to get accurate numbers of whales consumed in Korea and Japan. The researchers test the DNA of whale meat to determine if more whales are being killed than are reported to international regulators.

The article focuses on the consideration of local authorities in Las Vegas, Nevada to bore a tunnel beneath Lake Mead to tap the lower reaches of the lake. This project is intended to address the increased usage and years of drought that diminish the river's flow. A specially designed tunnel-boring machine is being made in Germany to dig the water-intake pipeline. The tunnel will be under pressure during the dig.

The article features Foldtrack, a robotic dozer, that was built to help engineers at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington to clean-up tanks that were used to produce weapons-grade plutonium until 1989. It cites that the only way in or out of several tanks is through a-foot-wide pipe in the roof of the tanks. The robot is used to open to form a column of connected pieces that fits through the inlets. It states that once inside, the robot reassembles like a toy Transformer.