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Use of Rubber in Structural Concrete Holds Promise
To date, most studies focusing on using rubber aggregate in concrete have employed only small-scale specimens to evaluate its effects on concrete's mechanical properties and durability.
Robot Reads Faces to Personalize Student Learning
The robot began by mirroring the emotional response of students. Over time, it personalized its responses in ways that would optimize each student's experience and achievement.
Americium Removal Method Makes Nuclear Waste Pools Safer
Americium doesn’t have the same name recognition as a plutonium or uranium, but researchers have been trying to remove it from nuclear waste for decades.
Wearable Patch Monitors Sweat, Treats Diabetes
Precise measurements of sweat glucose concentrations are used to gauge blood glucose levels. If abnormally high levels are detected, a drug is released into the bloodstream via microneedles.
Advanced Mine Detection Technology Being Developed
Because Colombia's many landmines were not industrially manufactured, but rather assembled from various everyday objects, they are almost impossible to detect via traditional methods.
Hybrid-Electric Aviation Powertrain Completes Test
Slovenian light-aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel fired up a 200 kW propulsor developed to deliver power equivalent to a typical general-aviation piston engine.
Boston Survey: One-Sixth of Gas Leaks "Potentially Explosive"
The findings differ significantly from results gathered by gas companies and other monitoring groups and highlight the risks that “fugitive” gas emissions pose both for safety and the environment.
U.S. Solar Capacity Projected to Double in 2016
With the federal Investment Tax Credit initially set to expire at the end of 2016, developers and EPCs filled their pipelines with projects.
ORNL to License Low-Cost Carbon Fiber Production Method
High cost has been the single largest roadblock to widespread use of carbon fiber as a strong, stiff reinforcement for advanced composites.
DOI: Climate Change a Growing Risk to Western U.S.
DOI has launched an online tool enabling the public to check, by basin, how temperature, precipitation and snowpack are projected to be affected by climate change.
Auto Sector Buys Every Second Industrial Robot
The Japanese auto industry currently boasts the highest "robot density," with 1,414 industrial robots for every 10,000 employees.
Large Fog Collection System Erected in Morocco
Southwest Morocco is water poor, but fog provides a reliable supplemental water resource that relieves pressure on aquifers and wells.
Handheld Explosive and Toxic Gas Detector Is Created
Engineers from University of Utah created a hand-held device that includes 16 sensors.
Water Leak Detection: The Inside Story
Inline leak detection systems rely on a sensor inside the pipe that passes over or close to leaks.
USGS: 7 Million Live, Work Near Induced Quake Zones
The USGS report notes that the central U.S. has undergone the most dramatic increase in seismicity—both overall and induced—over the past six years.
First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Begins to Take Shape
The wind farm is scheduled to come online at the end of 2016 and generate 125,000 megawatt-hours of electricity.
Alaska Airlines to Test ATJ Biofuel Blend
Alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) provides a "cost-competitive path" for commercial airlines to reduce their greenhouse gas footprint.
Sustainable Concrete from Captured Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide emitted by power plants is captured and ‘upcycled’ to create CO2NCRETE, a new building material.
Tough, Green Version of ABS Is Developed at Oak Ridge
ORNL team develops an ABS competitor based on lignin waste.
Pediatric Heart Pump Engineered by NASA
NASA scientists designed a conical heart pump for children born with only one heart ventricle.