Engineering
Ground settlement, the downward movement of the ground surface or soil, is caused by changes in underlying soil or rock. With continuing development of underground spaces in urban areas, the frequency of ground surface settlement ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Engineering
A new purple cooling fabric developed by Chinese and Australian researchers could help people stay cooler during scorching summer days without having to resort to wearing white.
Aug 24, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
For people who are blind or have low vision, moving around independently is a daily challenge. Harvard researchers have developed a new tool that could help people navigate more quickly and safely with nothing more than a ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
Persistent heat waves and below-average rainfall in spring and summer 2026 are causing drought conditions, falling groundwater levels and low river levels, including in the Rhine in Germany and elsewhere across Europe. At ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
A passenger jet soars across the sky at 640 mph (1,030 kilometers per hour), its wings pummeled with wind and boundary-layer turbulence, challenging the plane's operation and efficiency. Advancing research from Mahmoud I. ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
Despite significant advances in technology, knowing the atomic arrangement of metals in their microstructure—which defines their strength, deformability and other properties—is still tricky. In a new study, Yale researchers ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
Concrete slowly absorbs small amounts of carbon dioxide from the air over its lifetime, a natural process sometimes proposed as a solution to the cement industry's heavy carbon footprint. But a new UCLA-led study finds that ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
A technology that boosts condensation heat transfer performance by up to 5.5 times that of conventional copper surfaces has been developed by helping water droplets form more readily and detach more quickly. It is expected ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and Honeywell Aerospace have developed a new way to reduce the transfer of radiant heat between closely spaced bodies by using thin, ...
Aug 21, 2026
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Engineering
When we watch a metal part being built by laser-based metal additive manufacturing (AM), we're only seeing part of the story. In one kind of metal AM process, a high-powered laser sweeps across a bed of metal powder, creating ...
