As cities around the country grapple with soaring office vacancies in their urban cores, one developer in Chicago is using social media to drive interest in his plan to convert office space into apartments in a nearly 100-year-old downtown…
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“Tom the Skyscraper Guy” Uses Social Media to Create Interest in Adaptive Reuse of Tall Buildings
As cities around the country grapple with soaring office vacancies in their urban cores, one developer in Chicago is using social media to drive interest in his plan to convert office space into apartments in a nearly 100-year-old building…
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Water’s impact on hypersonic craft revealed
During hypersonic flight, an aircraft or missile flies at speeds exceeding Mach 5. Mach 5 is five times the speed of sound, or 6,173 km/h (3,836 mph). At those speeds, an aircraft could fly anywhere in less than four hours.
As it cuts through…
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Germany’s simulation tech improves engine stability in aerospace design
Krack and his team developed a tribometer: a measuring device that allows them to map the nonlinear behavior of friction. The graph shows that the relationship between friction force and friction distance is not linear.
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US Navy tests stealthy hydrogen tech delivering more energy than battery
A hydrogen device that delivers more energy per weight than batteries has been prototyped by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Called Hydrogen Small Unit Power (H-SUP), the prototype offers a low-signature solution for electric power…
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Chinese engines labeled as ‘coolers’ fuel Russian kamikaze drone boom
Chinese engines are being secretly shipped to a Russian state-owned drone manufacturer under the guise of “industrial refrigeration units” to bypass Western sanctions, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and three European security…
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Japan’s beam tech transforms forever plastics into reusable feedstock
Researchers in Japan have developed a method that reduces the energy needed to recycle Teflon by 50%, using an electron beam to break down the highly durable plastic. The technique fully decomposes the material at 370 °C (698 °F), a…
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New AI tool accelerates mRNA-based treatments for viruses, cancers, genetic disorders
A new artificial intelligence model can improve the process of drug and vaccine discovery by predicting how efficiently specific mRNA sequences will produce proteins, both generally and in various cell types.
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US to revive Palisades nuclear plant to power 800,000 homes
In a significant decision for the nuclear industry in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has authorized the request to bring the Palisades nuclear power plant back into operation.
Holtec, the US-founded multinational…
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Ancient Buddhist scroll virtually unrolled with battery imaging tech
Using a high-tech imaging technique, delicate silk-wrapped scrolls from a Mongolian Buddhist shrine have been “virtually unrolled.”
Interestingly, the technique revealed their contents without physical opening, uncovering a Sanskrit…
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