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Girders Get the Green Light
Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The temperature is now stabilized at a mild 68 °F (20 °C), support pedestals are in place and aligned, the paint is dry and physicists are moving in. That's the scene in the Linac Coherent ...
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Advanced Bridge Materials’ Efficacy Tested at NC State University
Aug 03, 2005 |
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One-third of urban bridges in the United States are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to the recent Infrastructure Report Card issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
UCR professor studies engineering and invention on the half-shell
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Apr 30, 2008 |
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Marine snails, sea urchins, and other animals from the sea are teaching researchers in UC Riverside’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering how to make the world a better place.
NIST releases final WTC 7 investigation report
Nov 20, 2008 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City. The final report ...
NIST WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse
Aug 21, 2008 |
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The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards ...
Engineers research effects of heat expansion on economically efficient bridge design (w/ Video)
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Kansas State University researchers are studying the effects of integral bridge expansion resulting from heat to make these types of bridges a more viable alternative.
Finding about cellular microtubule rigidity could lead to development of new nano-materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Microtubules, essential structural elements in living cells, grow stiffer as they grow longer, an unexpected property that could lead to advances in nano-materials development, an international team of biophysicists has found.
New book suggests Earth perhaps not such a benevolent mother after all
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past 50 years it has become commonplace to think of Earth as a nurturing place, straining mightily to maintain equilibrium so that life might continue and flourish.
Gravity played role in New Orleans' bridge failures
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Sir Isaac Newton did a number on the Interstate 10 bridges in New Orleans, according to a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla that helped document some of the damage caused by Hurricane ...
Scientists create 3-D scaffold for growing stem cells
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Dec 27, 2006 |
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Stem cells grew, multiplied and differentiated into brain cells on a new three-dimensional scaffold of tiny protein fragments designed to be more like a living body than any other cell culture system.
Chemists direct silicon oxide into a selected hierarchical structure
Jun 14, 2006 |
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Chemistry often seems to operate at random. However, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Coal Research and the International Max Planck Research School "SurMat" have been able to change that: they grew ...
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