Nigeria is set to partner with the Republic of China in an effort to build first of its kind baseline Interferometry. The intended baseline Interferometry will be used to monitor earthquake and volcanic eruption in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. A flash news report from the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Friday disclosed
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Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new test that can predict the durability of cement in seconds to minutes—rather than the hours it takes using current methods. The test measures the behavior of water droplets on cement surfaces using computer vision on a device that costs
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Pushed for the threat of climate change, rich countries are embarking on a grand electrification project. Britain, France and Norway, among others, plan to ban the sale of new internal-combustion cars over the coming decade. Even where bans are not on the statute books, electric-car sales are growing rapidly. Power
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A research team led by Prof. YU Shuhong et al. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a new strategy to prepare smart windows that dynamically regulate solar radiation, providing a more effective window for solar spectrum regulation and
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A specialist team from CAN Geotechnical has been using rope access to work at a height of 30 metres (ten storeys) on Brighton’s chalk cliffs, between the marina and Saltdean, making the area safe after repeated rockfalls affected use of the Undercliff Walk. CAN Geotechnical Project Manager Andy Pope said: “Our
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Disproportionate collapse is a failure where one component of a building leads the collapse of the building. ASCE’s (The American Society of Civil Engineers) newest standard, Standard for Mitigation of Disproportionate Collapse Potential in Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 76-23, provides a consensus perspective for mitigating this type of collapse.
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Everlasting concrete is here! It requires no maintenance, and its manufacture emits 80 per cent less CO2 than current products. And just recently, its inventors have been awarded a research prize for their achievement. It sounds almost too good to be true. But research carried out by SINTEF scientists Harald Justnes
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Asia stands as the world’s largest plastic-producing region, manufacturing approximately 51 per cent of the total global production of plastic materials Sheet after sheet amounting to more than 88 pounds of plastic was pulled out of a dead whale’s intestines in the Philippines. Clogged-up drainage systems exacerbated the impacts of deadly
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For many technology enthusiasts, the metaverse—a virtual 3D environment in which the physical and digital worlds converge—has the potential to transform almost every facet of human life, from work to education to entertainment. New Cornell research shows the metaverse could have environmental benefits, too: lowering the global surface temperature by up
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There are many ways to map New York City, including street maps of Manhattan’s famous grid, the brightly colored subway map, and souvenir maps of skyscrapers. Those are all static maps of long-term features, however. Alternately, there is a more dynamic way to map the city: use digital technologies to show
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