Troops often use abandoned masonry, brick or cinderblock structures for defensive purposes instead of building their own or digging foxholes.
Engineering
May 22, 2015
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The food tech startup Freight Farms is giving new life to old shipping containers, and at the same time giving impetus to locally grown food.
Energy & Green Tech
May 7, 2015
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Google Inc. is confirming that the so-called "Google barge" it docked in Maine has been sold.
Business
Aug 1, 2014
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Students from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University and the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, Germany, have been hard at work for nearly two years designing and building their one-of-a-kind entry for ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 30, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A bed. A kitchen. A place for lounging and watching television. Full bathroom. Storage space. Those are typical minimum requirements for a person's apartment. Now imagine all of that packed into fewer than 50 ...
Engineering
Jun 30, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year. Many of these containers eventually sink to the deep seafloor. In 2004, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) ...
Environment
May 8, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Behind strip malls and fast-food restaurants, they stand solid, dependable and mostly forgotten, awaiting our refuse.
Engineering
Apr 21, 2014
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Earlier today, Korean researchers successfully showcased the installation and operation of a box-shaped, high-pressure tank for the storage of liquefied natural gas in Pohang, Republic of Korea. The development was the first ...
Engineering
Mar 21, 2014
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Google's mystery barge has arrived at a new home at a port in the California city of Stockton on Thursday.
Business
Mar 7, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Pack it up, put it on a plane and fly it to Japan. It sounds simple enough, but a new video from NASA shows when your package is a satellite, it's anything but.
Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2014
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