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Better Dams, Levees, Embankments: Soil Type And Compaction Factors Can Make Soil 1,000 Times More Resistant To Erosion
April 5, 2008 — The safety of earthen embankments, including levees and dams, depends in large part on how resistant they are to erosion. That resistance can hinge on the soil materials used in their ... > full story -
Foldable And Stretchable, Silicon Circuits Conform To Many Shapes
March 27, 2008 — Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, ... > full story -
Designing Environmentally Friendly Communities
March 26, 2008 — Researchers have made a case study of a green community. The report "Green Schemes: Sustainable Urbanism in Garfield Park" presents 80 concepts such as filtration gardens, narrowed roadways, and an ... > full story -
Modeling How Electric Charges Move
March 13, 2008 — Learning how to control the movement of electrons on the molecular and nanometer scales could help scientists devise small-scale circuits for many applications, including more efficient ways of ... > full story -
Sniffing Out Uses For The Electronic Nose
March 10, 2008 — Despite 25 years of research, development of an "electronic nose" even approaching the capabilities of the human sniffer remains a dream, chemists in Germany conclude in an overview on the topic. ... > full story -
New Composite Material Is Almost Better Than Mother-of-Pearl
March 7, 2008 — Strong, tough but light is the rare but desired combination of properties for numerous artificial materials. Now a new material is similar to natural mother-of-pearl, but twice as strong. Nacre, or ... > full story -
NIST Building Safety Efforts Mark Fifth Anniversary Of RI Nightclub Fire
February 19, 2008 — Five years ago on Feb. 20, 2003, pyrotechnics lit during a concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., started a rapidly spreading fire that caused the deaths of 100 ... > full story -
Beaked Whales Actually Hear Through Their Throats
February 4, 2008 — Researchers have been using computer models to mimic the effects of underwater noise on an unusual whale species and have discovered a new pathway for sound entering the head and ears. Since 1968, it ... > full story -
Innovative Method Improves Tsunami Warning Systems, Offers New Insights
January 23, 2008 — A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems, and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004 ... > full story -
Proposed New City Of Istanbul Could Be Refuge In Case Of Severe Earthquake
January 23, 2008 — Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city. A second, ... > full story
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