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Engineering professor develops 'superlaminate' industrial pipe repair system

A University of Arizona engineering professor may have a solution to a U.S. infrastructure problem that's growing deadlier each year.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Buckyballs could keep water systems flowing

Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 7

No mere pipe dream

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI engineers are working on robotic technology to rehabilitate the nation's aging water infrastructure.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species

A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Fighting ecological invaders efficiently

Siemens is using a special water-treatment technique to make ship traffic more environmentally friendly. By disinfecting the ballast water in ships, a system named Sicure protects marine environments from ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanowick at heart of new system to cool 'power electronics'

Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quagga mussels are clogging Hoover Dam, colonizing lakes and rivers

It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Idaho farmers growing vegetables with geothermal energy

Most people know about the geothermal system in Boise's Downtown and Warm Springs area. It's one of the oldest in the country.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Thermostatic mixer valves could significantly reduce the risk of scalding in children, study finds

Using a thermostatic mixer valve to control the maximum temperature of children's bath water can significantly reduce the temperature of hot bath water and should reduce the risk of scalding, according to researchers at The ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Saw stuck in ruptured Gulf oil pipe: official

BP's latest effort to stem the oil spewing from a ruptured well a mile (1.6 kilometers) deep in the Gulf of Mexico hit a setback when a saw snagged while cutting a riser pipe, officials said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spying on Plastic Production

(PhysOrg.com) -- Real-time monitoring of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) production is now possible. In an article in the journal Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, Professor Rolf Mülhaupt and his studen ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Tag tech for buried pipes spins out

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Oxford University spin-out company, Oxford Electromagnetic Solutions Limited (OxEmS), has been set up to commercialise technology to locate and identify buried plastic pipes.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Underground mission to Mars

The Netherlands is home to around 120,000 kilometres of underground gas pipelines. Researcher Edwin Dertien of Dutch University of Twente is working on a robot which can inspect the gas pipelines independently. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Russia blames TNK-BP for massive oil leaks

Russia's environment minister on Thursday blamed Russian-British oil company TNK-BP for causing massive oil pollution in a resource-rich Siberian region and failing to invest in its infrastructure.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists develope new agents to battle MRSA

Experts from Queen's University Belfast have developed new agents to fight MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The fluids are a class of ionic liquids that not only kill colonies ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0