Engineering

Using fabric to 'listen' to space dust

Earlier this month a team of MIT researchers sent samples of various high-tech fabrics, some with embedded sensors or electronics, to the International Space Station. The samples (unpowered for now) will be exposed to the ...

Engineering

Video: Modeling how debris affects buildings during a tsunami

When we think of tsunamis, we might picture a giant wall of water that wipes buildings off a beach, or knocks down houses along a coastline. But much of the devastation caused by a tsunami is created by the surge of moving ...

Energy & Green Tech

New images from inside Fukushima reactor spark safety worry

Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant showed exposed steel bars in the main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete ...

Engineering

Newly developed floating trash interceptor cleans up river

To reduce marine debris, which causes serious environmental pollution in the sea, researchers at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) have developed a technology for reducing floating debris ...

Consumer & Gadgets

iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall from Alaska Airlines flight

Now that's what you call airplane modeā€”an iPhone that plummeted 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) from an Alaska Airlines flight landed without a single crack in the screen and even a battery still half-charged.

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Debris

Debris (pronounced /ˈdeɪ.briː/, /dɛˈbriː/) is a word used to describe the remains of something that has been otherwise destroyed. Debris is pronounced with a silent s and a long e. The singular form of debris is debris.

Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.

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