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University of Toronto seismic brace system headed to market
The University of Toronto's Civil Engineering Structural Testing Facilities laboratory recently attracted industry, academics and media to witness a half-million pounds of force testing a yielding brace system designed to ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Google buys New York office building
Google said Wednesday that it had purchased an 18-story building in New York to house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city.
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Mayan buildings may have operated as sound projectors
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists from Mexico say buildings built by the Maya people could have served as projection systems and amplifiers to deliver sounds over relatively large distances.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 21, 2010 |
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'Shaky' plan: Quake experiments may lead to sturdier buildings
Cold-formed steel has become a popular construction material for commercial and industrial buildings, but a key question remains: How can these structures be designed so that they are most likely to remain ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Apros software is renewed to simulate clean power plants of the future
The increased requirements on efficient production of clean energy have introduced the necessity to develop new power plant concepts. The basic functionality of the new ideas is tested in small scale pilot plants. Advanced ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Greener cement offers concrete environmental benefits
From the Roman aqueducts to the Empire State Building, concrete is the most common manmade building material on the planet. It’s also one of the largest sources of industrial emissions: the red-hot kilns used to make ...
Dec 03, 2010 |
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New life form found on Earth: Deadly arsenic breathes life into organisms (Update, Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Playing with building blocks of creativity help children with autism
In an attempt to help children with autism learn the building blocks of creativity, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) tapped a toy box staple for help – legos. By building lego structures ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Getting lost in buildings: Architecture can bias your cognitive map (w/ Video)
Some people always know which way is north and how to get out of a building. Others can live in an apartment for years without knowing which side faces the street. Differences among people that include spatial skills, experience, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 23, 2010 |
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NIST releases draft report on South Carolina furniture fire study
Major factors contributing to a rapid spread of fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., on June 18, 2007, included large open spaces with furniture providing high fuel loads, the inward rush of air ...
Nov 12, 2010 |
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Notre dame psychologist studies how we get our bearings in buildings (w/ Video)
Most everyone has experienced getting lost in a building – hospitals, museums, libraries and shopping malls top the list of structures that leave us turned around and wondering where to go next.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Italy: More building collapses at Pompeii possible
(AP) -- More buildings inside the ancient Roman city of Pompeii could collapse, Italy's culture minister said Sunday, a day after a 2,000-year-old house once used by gladiators disintegrated into rubble.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Turbo-packed RNA: Turbo reagent allows precise synthesis of tRNA nucleosides
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a biologically important molecule that is very similar to DNA, the blueprint of life. Naturally occurring RNAs, such as transfer RNA (tRNA), contain modified building ...
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Going nature one better: Researchers learn biology's secrets for making tough, resilient materials
Nature has one very big advantage over any human research team: plenty of time. Billions of years, in fact. And over all that time, it has produced some truly amazing materials — using weak building blocks ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Scientists simulate hurricane-force winds in the lab (w/ Video)
Researchers used more than 100 giant fans to create hurricane-force winds in an experiment Tuesday that crumpled an ordinary home within minutes but left a better-built home standing at its side.
Oct 20, 2010 |
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