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Posted October 10, 2008:

• New International Building Codes Address Fire Safety And Evacuation Issues For Tall Structures

Posted October 5, 2008:

• Immune System For Electronics? Electronics That Can Diagnose And Heal Themselves Under Development

Posted September 16, 2008:

• Flower-shaped Nanoparticles May Lead To Better Batteries For Portable Electronics
• Cautionary Note In Use Of Carbon Nanotubes As Interconnects

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Airplane Riveting Improved With New Technology

Posted August 28, 2008:

• Wind-powered 'Ventomobile' Places First in Race

Posted August 26, 2008:

• Building A Stronger Roof Over Your Head: 'Three Little Pigs' Project Begins First Tests

Posted August 24, 2008:

• Rigorous Earthquake Simulations Aim To Make Buildings Safer

Posted August 6, 2008:

• Wind Powered Vehicle, Ventomobile, Ready To Race In The Netherlands

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Networks Of Metal Nanoparticles Are Culprits In Alloy Corrosion

Posted August 4, 2008:

• Arresting And Self-healing Cracks: Paving The Way For Next Generation Composite Materials

Posted July 22, 2008:

• First Full 3-D View Of Cracks Growing In Steel

Posted July 13, 2008:

• Architect Professor Advocates Best-building Practices For High Wind Regions

Posted July 11, 2008:

• Vest To Measure Stress

Posted June 21, 2008:

• Getting Wrapped Up In Solar Textiles

Posted June 20, 2008:

• Space Radar To Improve Miners' Safety

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Durable, Inexpensive, Bamboo Houses Can Be Assembled Quickly For Earthquake Victims

Posted June 9, 2008:

• New Bridge Can Be Built In Two Weeks

Posted May 7, 2008:

• Importance Of Retrofitting Existing Housing To Make It More Environmentally Friendly

Posted April 16, 2008:

• Incorporating Health And Safety Concepts In Building Plans Reduces Accident Rates And Costs

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Nervous System For Airplanes, Bridges And Other Structures Should Improve Safety

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Future Of Solar-powered Houses Is Clear: New Windows Could Halve Carbon Emissions

Posted March 28, 2008:

• Designing Environmentally Friendly Communities

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Modeling How Electric Charges Move

Posted March 10, 2008:

• New Composite Material Is Almost Better Than Mother-of-pearl

Posted January 26, 2008:

• Proposed New City Of Istanbul Could Be Refuge In Case Of Severe Earthquake

Posted January 9, 2008:

• 'Green' Energy Efficient Mobile Home Designed

Posted December 18, 2007:

• Quicky Assembled Bamboo Bridge, Strong Enough For Trucks, Opens In China

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Housing: Location Key With Environmentally Friendly Cluster Developments

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Giant Wave Experiment Reveals Poorly Understood Behavior Of Tsunamis

Posted October 15, 2007:

• Home Fire Sprinklers Score 'A' In Cost-benefit Study

Posted October 13, 2007:

• Steep Sloped Roofs Lasted Through Katrina Better Than Low Sloped Roofs

Posted September 23, 2007:

• Preventing Future Bridge Collapses: Protective Coatings May Hold Key

Posted September 21, 2007:

• Bridge Strengthening Research
• How Will Hurricanes Affect Evacuation Along Coastal Roadways?

Posted August 28, 2007:

• Evaluating Concrete Bridges Is Hard Because Many Lack Documentation

Posted August 21, 2007:

• Building Green For Less Green: Design Team Plans Lower-cost, Energy-efficient Housing

Posted August 14, 2007:

• Full-time Sensors Can Detect Bridge Defects

Posted August 13, 2007:

• Analysis Of Accidents At Home Reveals Home Design Flaws

Posted August 9, 2007:

• Bridge Skin Could Reveal Cracks And Corrosion Beneath

Posted August 5, 2007:

• Technology To Monitor Bridge Safety Is Available

Posted July 30, 2007:

• Sensors May Monitor Aircraft For Defects Continuously

Posted July 2, 2007:

• Engineers Designing Protective Wall To Shield Bridges From Terrorist Attacks

Posted June 21, 2007:

• New Building Insulation To Combat Wet, Warm, Wall Worries
• Home Shapes And Roofs That Hold Up Best In Hurricanes

Posted June 10, 2007:

• Fire And Structural Safety A Hot Topic For Engineers, And The Nation

Posted June 1, 2007:

• Huge Wind Machine To Simulate Category Three Hurricanes

Posted May 10, 2007:

• Bridges Will Rock -- Safely -- With New Earthquake Resistant Design

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