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A way to slow concrete creep to a crawl

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...

Researchers found "shrink-wrapping" is the key; buckyballs start life as distorted

Location: Sandia National Laboratory, United States

The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice...

Google Earth Worries ISRO Chief

Location: New BEL Road, Bangalore 560 094, India

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief has expressed concern at high-resolution satellite images offered by Google and...

An intelligent cars

Location: IBM Haifa Research Lab,Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel

The Israelis Oleg Goldshmidt, Dan Chevion and their team of engineers carry out research in IBM Haifa Research Lab in order to equip the technological cars of systems allowing them to reduce the obstructions and the road accidents. An...

An inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets

Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology,323 M. L. K. Blvd.Newark,N.J. - 07102., United States

Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "The process is simple," said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra, PhD,...