Engineering
One of the biggest noise nuisances in homes arises from people simply moving around their homes. In particular, this can be quite disturbing for people living in buildings where adjoining homes have traditional wooden floors. ...
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Robotics
There are up to 66 million tons of waste in our oceans today, and the overwhelming majority of it is found on the ocean floor. However, with the exception of a few potentially dangerous operations using human divers, most ...
Jun 9, 2022
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Engineering
A team of researchers with the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Edinburgh, Google and Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica developed a way to use existing undersea fiber cables to detect seismic events. ...
Engineering
The 2001 World Trade Center disaster was the most significant high-rise evacuation in modern times, and the harrowing experiences of the thousands of survivors who successfully escaped the twin towers have had a significant ...
Sep 10, 2021
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Engineering
The collapse of the World Trade Center has been subject to intense public scrutiny over the 20 years since the centre's twin towers were struck by aircraft hijacked by terrorists. Both collapsed within two hours of impact, ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Engineering
Recently, using random forest regression models, scientists estimated an urban floor (building) area map with high accuracy for mainland China.
Jul 30, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A team of researchers from Utah State University's Power Electronics Lab have developed a DC current-to-DC voltage power converter. This converter is equipped for long distances and minimal maintenance, making it particularly ...
Apr 16, 2021
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Engineering
A multi-institutional team of researchers has found that it is possible to use a type of fungus to soften wood to the point that it could be used to generate electricity. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
Hardware
The coastline of Norway is peppered with more than a thousand oil wells, most of which will be plugged once they're no longer profitable. They have to be monitored in case they leak—but keeping an eye on them isn't easy. ...
Apr 7, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
In the search for clean electricity, power companies in Finland are going green by way of brown, and have set their sights on a previously untapped energy source: animal dung.
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Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.
Materials almost always classified as floor covering include carpet, area rugs, and resilient flooring such as linoleum or vinyl flooring. Materials commonly called flooring include wood flooring, ceramic tile, stone, terrazzo, and various seamless chemical floor coatings.
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