Researchers from Science Tokyo have discovered that bacterial swarms transition from stable vortices to chaotic turbulence through distinct intermediate states. Combining experiments with bacterial swarms, computer simulations, and mathematical…
Category: Engineering
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Ultrasonic Beams Create Secure, Private Audio
Ultrasonic beams fired through a 3D-printed metasurface can create localized pockets of sound that are inaudible to passers-by. The technique could be used to create private speech zones for secure communications or enable personalized audio…
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Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
Mar 17, 2025 Engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts.
(Nanowerk News) We move thanks to coordination among many… Continue Reading
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Magnetic microalgae on a mission to become robots
Mar 17, 2025 Researchers developed a single-cell green microalgae coated with magnetic nanoparticles.
(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in…
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Construction Economics for March 24, 2025
The 60th annual Award of Excellence celebration will take place in New York City, March 27, 2025. Three award programs will be wrapped into one exciting day, recognizing the 2024 Best of the Best winning projects, the Top 25 Newsmakers of…
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Raw Sewage Spill Fouls Waters Between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico
Crews performing repairs to a system of pipes meant to send sewage flows from the Tijuana, Mexico, area to treatment plants on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border reported a rupture beginning the night of March 8 that sent millions of gallons of…
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Senate Passes Spending Bill, Averting Government Shutdown
The U.S. Senate voted mostly along party lines 54-46 late March 14 to pass a spending bill known as a continuing resolution, which will fund the federal government for the rest of its fiscal year ending Sept. 30. The bill includes about $7…
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Are New York Construction Workers Safer? Depends on How Your Count
On the afternoon of November 6, 2023, Francisco Lumbreras, 52, was working for a site preparation contractor in the Bronx applying grease with a grease gun to a fitting located in the back of a ready-mix delivery truck. He took a step or two…
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Tennessee Picks Kiewit for $787M Mississippi River Bridge Replacement
Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. will lead the construction of a $787.5-million replacement of the Interstate 55 bridge crossing the Mississippi River between Tennessee and Arkansas at Memphis.
The project, also dubbed America’s River Crossing,…
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Tampa Bay Rays Withdraw from $1.3B Ballpark Plan
Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays are withdrawing from a plan to construct a $1.3-billion ballpark, citing hurricane impacts to the existing Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., and other factors, leaving the new stadium and a related…
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