Shell's floating liquid natural gas (LNG) facility will allow the estimated 3 trillion cubic feet of gas off the coast of Australia to be economically developed. It will be the world's largest floating structure: 488 meters long and more than four football fields end to end.

CEP's (Chemical Engineering Progress) biennial salary survey is presented in the June 2011 issue. Look for it in print, on AIChE.org/CEP, or on a future post here. In addition to questions about facts, figures, and demographic data, respondents were asked three open-ended questions. The most interesting of them was...

Singapore used to depend heavily on Malaysia for treated water, but now it uses state-of-the-art technology to recycle sewage and other wastewater, producing water that is claimed to be as pure as distilled water.

The fabled Human Genome Project—the $3.8-billion international mapping effort led by the United States that ran from 1988 to 2003—was one of the last "big government" research projects, although the internet, originally a small, DARPA project, was quietly gaining momentum in the background. The ambitiously stated HGP goal, "to understand the human genome," felt t oskeptics a little too Star-Treky, representing the rump-end of Kenndy-Johnson-era big government idealism. I don't even want to talk about the loss caused by the long-aborted Texas Super Collider.

Dilbert is faced with a new version of an all too familiar social dilemma.

Peter Thiel thinks big. He co-founded PayPal, and later became Facebook's first outside investor and behind-the-scenes mentor. Now he’s focused on dealing with what he sees as a lack of innovation in the U.S.

In the continuing series, we bring you more answers to questions about Fukushima and nuclear energy, from AIChE's Nuclear Engineering Division (NED).

Researchers at Brown University have used carbon nanotubes to create a patch that can regenerate heart tissue in the lab, according to a report in Technology Review. The patch is formed of chains of carbon atoms that fold onto themselves to create a tube that is capable of conducting electricity and mimics the surface of natural tissue.

In the continuing series, we bring you more answers to your questions about Fukushima and nuclear energy, from AIChE's Nuclear Engineering Division (NED).