Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings—especially in high-rise structures—only as a back-up for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or other emergency, stairs become our primary passage to survival. ...
Other
Mar 25, 2009
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A method to convert a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin used in 3D-printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste.
Materials Science
Aug 31, 2022
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Using the power of prediction, University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineers have quickly discovered several promising high-performance polymers out of a field of 8 million candidates.
Polymers
Jun 16, 2023
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NASA honored one of its most famous astronauts Monday by renaming a historic building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2014
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By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology, and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate ...
Nanophysics
Dec 9, 2013
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Recognizing and separating enantiomers is a difficult task for chemical engineers—one might say it gives them a bit of a headache.
Polymers
May 8, 2023
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In the early morning hours of Feb. 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck near the border between Turkey and Syria. Dozens of aftershocks followed in the next few days, including a 7.5 magnitude earthquake triggered by the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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A Category 5 hurricane is a monster of a storm that most people would want to avoid. But, civil engineer Arindam Chowdhury actually recreates those monster hurricane force winds in hopes of helping people better prepare for ...
Engineering
Sep 12, 2012
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Researchers from a team funded by the National Science Foundation have examined some of last spring's massive tornado damage and conclude in a new report that more intensive engineering design and more rigorous, localized ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2011
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An adjustable shading system that adapts itself independently over the course of the day, without sensors or motors and largely maintenance-free? It really is possible: an ETH doctoral student at the Institute for Building ...
Engineering
Aug 17, 2018
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