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Civil Engineers Destroy Test Levee in the Netherlands
September 20, 2012 — Civil engineers collapsed a full-scale dike this week in the Netherlands. The test dike was embedded with advanced sensors and traditional measurement instruments, and results of the study are ... > full story -
Can Nanotubes Tell of Bridge Collapse Risk?
September 19, 2012 — In August 2007, the I-35W Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The collapse was attributed to a design deficiency that resulted in a gusset ... > full story -
Research Gives Insight Into Graphene-Metal Junctions
September 18, 2012 — Researchers have developed a better understanding of how these graphene-metal interfaces affect the movement of electrons through two-terminal ... > full story -
Negative Cross-Resistance Helps Scientists Outmaneuver Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
September 13, 2012 — Kochia, a weed that is rapidly becoming more abundant across southern Canadian prairies and the Great Plains of the United States, can reduce crop yields by up to 60 percent. Fighting this weed has ... > full story -
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Home Sweet Lab: Computerized House to Generate as Much Energy as It Uses
September 13, 2012 — The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much ... > full story -
New Roof and Attic Design Proves Efficient in Summer and Winter
September 10, 2012 — A new kind of roof-and-attic system keeps homes cool in summer and prevents heat loss in winter, a multi-seasonal efficiency uncommon in roof and attic ... > full story -
Exploration Drilling to Monitor Earthquakes in the Istanbul Area
September 7, 2012 — Today the drilling starts for a seismic monitoring network on the Marmara Sea near Istanbul. Specially designed seismic sensors in eight boreholes on the outskirts of Istanbul and around the eastern ... > full story -
Smoking and Natural Disasters: Christchurch Residents Increase Tobacco Consumption Post-Earthquake
September 4, 2012 — The prevalence of smoking in Christchurch, New Zealand, increased following the 2010 earthquake, according to a new ... > full story -
Turning Chemistry Inside-Out: Self-Assembling Smart Microscopic Reagents to Pioneer Pourable Electronics
August 29, 2012 — A new project plans to build autonomous self-assembling electronic microreagents that are almost as small as cells. They will exchange chemical and electronic information to jointly direct complex ... > full story -
Short And Mid-Term Cardiovascular Effects of Japan's 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami: Incidence Rises With the Seismic Peak
August 27, 2012 — The Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, which hit the north-east coast of Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale, was one of the largest ocean-trench earthquakes ever ... > full story
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