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NJIT professor tells architects building practices to withstand hurricanes
Rima Taher, an expert in the design of low-rise buildings for extreme winds and hurricane, hopes her phone won't ring much this hurricane season. It's already been busy with requests for information about ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Climate change and mountain building led to mammal diversity patterns
Travel from the tropics to the poles, and you'll notice that the diversity of mammals declines with distance from the equator. Move from lowland to mountains, and you'll see diversity increase as the landscape ...
May 05, 2010 |
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Radon in residential buildings: A risk factor for lung cancer
About 1900 deaths from lung cancer per year in Germany are due to radon within residential buildings. This was the conclusion reached in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International by Klaus Schmid of the ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour
(AP) -- Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate ...
Mar 27, 2010 |
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Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones
First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot. It's not.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 09, 2010 |
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How to turn blueprints green
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even in today's increasingly energy-conscious world, it's rare for the subject of energy efficiency to be addressed in the early stages of designing a new building, whether it's a single-family ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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Heat-resistant adhesive for building work
The "Parasols" in Seville feature components that are designed to be glued instead of bolted together. To prevent the adhesive from melting, it needs to withstand temperatures of up to 60 degrees. Researchers ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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NASA Technology to Enhance 'Green' Building's Efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today announced that it is collaborating with Integrated Building Solutions (IBS), Inc. to develop a next-generation intelligent, automated, and integrated environmental monitoring and management capability ...
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Stanford professor compares energy from Haiti earthquake to a nuclear blast (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, predicts that it could take Haiti 10 years to recover from the earthquake that devastated the island nation.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2010 |
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IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)
Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Online collaboration with built-in clarity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally threaten the dominance of email as the world's premier collaboration ...
Nov 06, 2009 |
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The greening of Willis Tower: Rooftop gardens part of plan to improve efficiency
Growing up in the southwest suburbs, Sara Beardsley had a view of the Chicago skyline from her house. Today, she is transforming that skyline, but you won't find her work glorified on a $6 mug or gracing postcards.
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Powerhouses in the cell dismantled
All of life is founded on the interactions of millions of proteins. These are the building blocks for cells and form the molecular mechanisms of life. The problem is that proteins are extremely difficult to study, particularly ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Software Helps Design Energy Stingy Buildings (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new quick, easy to use and free software tool created by NREL developers seamlessly combines the building energy simulation of EnergyPlus with the popular drawing interface of Google's SketchUp, ...
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Draft NIST report on Cowboys facility collapse released for comment
A fabric-covered, steel frame practice facility owned by the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys collapsed under wind loads significantly less than those required under applicable design standards, according ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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