News tagged with scale buildings

Cement's basic molecular structure finally decoded

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 5

New design means cheaper, more sustainable construction

People are always looking for ways to make something less expensive and more environmentally friendly - and a team of researchers from North Carolina State University has figured out how to do both of those ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Stay or go? Some towns are eyeing retreat from sea

(AP) — Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park a two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot (150 meter)-long wooden defense next to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Study highlights climate food risk hotspots

The poorest societies may be more able to adapt to the threat climate change poses to food supplies than their slightly richer peers, a new study suggests.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hazy days: Berkeley lab tackles pollution in Mongolia

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Turning DNA into a hard drive

Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Earthquakes without frontiers

Understanding the threat posed by unanticipated earthquakes in continental interiors is the focus of a new study led by the University of Cambridge.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency

Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 85 | with audio podcast

Unravelling the mystery of misfolding prions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the University of Alberta's physics department and the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) are the first to map out the folding pathways of prions, malformed ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bright future for solar power in space

Solar power gathered in space could be set to provide the renewable energy of the future thanks to innovative research being carried out by engineers at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

DNA strands create tiniest Smileys

Harvard University scientists on Wednesday said they had created Smileys, Chinese characters and card-game symbols at scales of billionths of a metre using strands of DNA.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A design to save American cities

When Brent Ryan started doing academic research on Detroit, in the 1990s, he was immediately taken aback by the city’s plight: derelict commercial buildings, burnt-out homes and whole neighborhoods being ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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