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Location: Cambridge, United States
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 structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Carbon nanotubes - tiny, rolled-up tubes of graphite - promise to add speed
to electronic circuits and strength to materials like carbon composites, used in
airplanes and racecars. A major problem, however, is that the metals used to
grow...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Johansburg, South Africa
Recent studies into the use of synthetic fibres to improve the longevity of
concrete applications have yielded results that are set to make a positive
impact on the South African construction industry, reports the Cement and
Concrete...
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Location: California, United States
A NASA-developed, environmentally friendly anti-icing fluid that can make railroad and commuter travel safer and more reliable during snowy conditions is now available for commercial
Under license from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett...
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Location: University of Florida, United States
Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world,
anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed
almost infinitesimally close together, spontaneously attract each other.
What...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market...
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Location: European Institute of Membranes UMR CNRS 5635, France
Researchers at the European
Institute of Membranes (UMR CNRS 5635, Montpellier), led by Mihail Barboiu,
found that the chirality of G-quadruplexes, tubular superstructure of a few
nanometers,...
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Location: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,200 Patton Hall,,Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061,, United States
“Fruity plastic” may seem like a connoisseur’s description of the bouquet of
a bottle of Chardonnay or Merlot gone bad. However, that was among several
uncomplimentary terms that a panel of water “sensory experts” used to describe
the odor...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue ,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
MIT student Jules Walter has seen firsthand the impact of deforestation in his native Haiti: Nearly 98 percent of the island's forests are gone, and more trees are being cut down every year.
Deforestation is not only an environmental problem in...
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Location: B105, Bauer Bld, 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge MA 02138, United States
Researchers at Harvard and Princeton
universities have taken a crucial step toward building biological computers,
tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of
human cells. The information provided by these...
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Location: rue de Navacelles,34090 Montpellier ,CNRS, France
The
study of a therapeutic peptide, Lanreotide (1), by researchers of the CNRS and
University of Rennes made it possible to discover that this peptide had the
capacity to be used as scaffolding with the spontaneous formation of silica...
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Using
a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has
shed new light on one of...
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Location: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139-4307617.253.7403, United States
If you spotted an anaconda poised to strike,
the signal to pay attention would originate in a different part of your brain
than if you gazed at an anaconda in the zoo, neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report...
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Location: Central university administration,Department for research and project management,
Line: Dr. Jens Hemmelskamp,Secretariat: Claudia Wessling ,,Seminarstr. 269117 HeidelbergUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany
A salient example of global changes, which concern no longer individual countries or regions, but mankind as a whole, is the trend for urbanization (urbanisation) and the propagation of million and “megacities” on all continents of the earth, in...
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Location: Bridge Research and Information ,Civil Engineering ,
Department/258 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557Tel: (775) 784-6664 ,Fax: (775) 784-1390, United States
The design of structural bridge elements like columns, beam-column joints,
and cap beams has changed tremendously over the past 30 years. Many experimental
tests have been done in order to determine the behavior of bridge bents under...
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