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Engineering Facts
A Man-made 'Take' on Nature's Style
Advanced Composite Materials, (ACMs) are, as the name implies, composite materials. However, they consist exclusively of…
Hollywood To The Rescue
Sixty years ago, World War II was driving many advances in the sciences; a surprising number of these developments have…
Alloys
Water is a clear colorless liquid. So is methanol. If one were to take a quantity of methanol and pour it into some…
High Altitude
Have you ever read the directions on a box of cake mix? There are special instructions for high-altitude baking. Has…
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Breakthroughs
- X-Ray Astronomy vs. Medical X-Rays
- A New Twist on Fiber Optics
- Bicycle Chain for Fleas
- Cool Fuel Cells
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Drip, Drip Water Clocks
- Fiber Optics
- GPS (Global Positioning System)
- Hollywood To The Rescue
- How Can A Bullet-proof Vest Stop A Bullet?
- How We Use Crystals To Tell Time
- Hybrid Cars: The Magic Braking
- Infrared Headphones
- Liquid Crystal Communication
- NASA Hits a Hole-In-One
- New York to London in Less Than Two Hours
- Non-Flammable Fuel?
- Pass the Basalt
- Red Dot Replacing Cross Hairs
- Searing Heat, Little Package
- Seeing In The Dark
- Smoke Detectors
- Space Lasers Keep Earth's Air Clean