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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
An accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide
engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells
where it can be pumped out for storage or transport.
Researchers in MIT's Department of...
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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: Cambridge, United States
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to the nano requires finding a means to...
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Location: New Orleans, United States
The failure of the New Orleans' levees after Hurricane Katrina struck the coastal city in 2005 is now labeled "the worst engineering disaster of the United States" by a professional organization that knows –– the American Society of...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
A comprehensive new study authored by University
at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in
detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless...
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Location: Madison, United States
What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common" They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as
biodiesel, says a study...
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Location: UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, United States
We are ocean biologists and biogeochemists who use
NASA satellite data to study
the ocean's biosphere, its changes in time and how it is affected by and
responds to humankind's activities. Our...
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Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
One knew the electronic properties of the
nanotubes like their potential for the realization of a space elevator.
Researchers of Connecticut have just discovered their antimicrobial properties
. More than ever, the carbon nanotubes are...
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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
Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop. Then mix a small amount of mineral oil with an even smaller amount of detergent. Squeeze a tiny drop of that mixture onto the water and watch in amazement as...
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Location: West Lafayette, IN 47907,Purdue University, United States
A study led by a Purdue University researcher projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. The...
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Location: 106 Riley-Robb Hall,Cornell University,Ithaca, NY 14853,607 255-2465, United States
A Cornell researcher is working
to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the
developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get
appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly...
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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: Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, United States
A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely stored in briny porous...
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