Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean.
A team from the University of Texas at Austin…
Category: Engineering
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Biodegradable memory chip dissolves in water, survives 3,000 bends
Electronic waste has become one of the world’s fastest-growing environmental problems. Billions of lightweight electronic devices, be it fitness trackers, health-monitoring patches, or short-term implants, are discarded after limited use….
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Committee Launches Structural Engineering Code Review to Reduce Embodied Carbon
A team of 10 practicing civil and structural engineers and academics has launched an effort to identify and prioritize provisions in the current building codes and standards that if appropriately modified will result in a substantial reduction in…
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Granite-Led JV Tapped for Two Major Southern Nevada Water Projects
The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) selected a joint venture of Granite Construction and Contri Construction to build two pumping stations and pipelines projected at between $450 to $520 million—parts of a multibillion-dollar effort…
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Regeneration restored in mice by reactivating ancient gene switch
Chinese scientists have restored damaged ear tissue in mice by reactivating a genetic switch long thought to be lost in mammals.
This is a significant development, since mice are unable to regrow complex tissue naturally.
The team used…
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Russia captures Europe’s richest lithium site spanning 100 acres
Russian forces have seized control of a key lithium-rich zone near the village of Shevchenko in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
The site, located roughly 2 miles (3 km) from the border of Dnipropetrovsk oblast, spans approximately 100 acres (40…
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Four Convicted in Fire That Caused $10M in Damage to Ohio’s Daniel Beard Bridge
Four people have been sentenced in connection with a deliberately set fire that caused $10 million in damage to the Daniel Beard Bridge last year.
The bridge, also known as the Big Mac Bridge, is a 1,300-ft-long twin tied-arch bridge carrying…
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‘Doomsday vault’ stores human poop to protect vital microbes for future
A team of scientists in Switzerland is collecting and deep-freezing human poop in what they call a “doomsday” vault. The goal is to protect the invisible microbial world inside us for future generations.
More than 1,000 fecal samples are…
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Squid-inspired camo may help US troops vanish from sight and sensors
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, working with collaborators from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, have captured the first three-dimensional views of the cells that let longfin inshore squid…
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Clean recycling breakthrough turns dead batteries into power for US
The United States faces a critical dependency on China to supply and refine key industrial metals essential to developing EV batteries and defense equipment.
Approximately 85% of global critical minerals, including cobalt, nickel, lithium,…
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