News tagged with gravel road
A new direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming
University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Rural road maintenance may accidentally push spread of invasive plants
Road maintenance may accidentally spread the seeds of invasice plants, according to Penn State researchers.
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Scientists explore the physics of bumpy roads
sand or gravel or snow -- develops ripples that make driving a very shaky experience. A team of physicists from Canada, France and the United Kingdom have recreated this "washboard" phenomenon in the lab with ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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On gravel roads, people drive at speed they are comfortable with, regardless of posted limit
Kansas gravel roads have varying speed limits, but a study by Kansas State University researchers shows that instead of abiding by those limits, people are more likely to use their own judgment to gauge how ...
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Researcher using nanoclays to build better asphalt
Long before freeways and parking lots, a naturally occurring asphalt first appeared on roads in about 600 B.C. You can still see patches of it in the ancient city of Babylon.
May 04, 2012 |
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Bridges get a quick check-up with new imaging technique
Swiss engineers have developed a new imaging technique that lets them see the insides of massive concrete bridges. Much like a sonogram, this technique provides quick, easy-to-interpret images, so that the ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Improved ergonomics for wheelchair users
(PhysOrg.com) -- Empa engineers, together with the firm r going, have succeeded in developing an ergonomic seat for electric wheelchairs which encourages the user to move around frequently. True to the motto ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Danube's near-record lows strangle shipping
Severe drought has hit Europe's second largest river, the Danube, turning it into a navigation nightmare for shipping companies all the way from Germany to Bulgaria.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Gold rush hurts aquatic life
Gold prospectors chasing $1,600-an-ounce flecks in river bottoms east of Charlotte also might be sucking life out of the streams, experts say.
Nov 06, 2011 |
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Apple plans massive solar farm in North Carolina
Permits dug up by the Charlotte Observer have revealed Apple Inc.'s plan to build a gigantic solar farm to help power its recently built $1 billion data center in North Carolina. Apple has not formally announced the project ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Archaeologists in Maryland say they have found long-sought Zekiah Fort
Archaeologists in southern Maryland say they have solved a mystery that has baffled historians since at least the 1930s. They say they have found Zekiah Fort.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Paving the way to greenhouse gas reductions
Concrete is one of the most extensively used materials worldwide -- on average, more than two tons per year of the rock-like stuff is produced for every man, woman and child on Earth, making its use second only to water. ...
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Protecting the Valais by studying a river that runs through it
EPFL's Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory is working with Crealp (Center for Research on Alpine Environments) in Sion to model sediment deposits carried by the Naviscence River. They are simulating possible scenarios for ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Alabama tornado team scours paths of killer storms
The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle - a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash - crested a ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2011 |
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