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Engineering & S.T.E.M
New System Developed to Test and Evaluate High-Energy Laser Weapons
sensors connected at key points on the face for contingent computed responses
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Shoe Power Generator, Embedded in the Sole of a Shoe, Harvest Energy –
July 6, 2010Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana tech University has developed a technology that harvests power from a small generator embedded in the sole of a shoe. Kaajakari’s innovative technology...
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Giant NASA balloon crashes in Australia
July 6, 2010SYDNEY (AFP) – A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia Thursday, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers. Dramatic footage of the incident...
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Astronomers find loads of ice on big asteroid
July 6, 2010The discovery of significant asteroid ice has several consequences. It could help explain where early Earth first got its water. It makes asteroids more attractive to explore, dovetailing with President Barack Obama’s announcement ...
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Treat Acne with Coconut Oil and Nano-Bombs
July 6, 2010ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2010) – A natural product found in both coconut oil and human breast milk – lauric acid – shines as a possible new acne treatment thanks to a bioengineering graduate student from the UC San Diego...
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Why Apple banned Flash from the iPhone
July 6, 2010In a rare open letter published Thursday, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons why his company refuses to let Adobe Systems’ Flash Player onto the iPhone: he thinks it’s a relic, not the future...
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Earthquake-Resistant Engineering
July 6, 2010How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts from the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona, one approach to this problem is to consider a building
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The Engineer is Essential to Solving Global Problems
July 6, 2010That may sound logical, but it isn’t entirely accurate, according to a noted Duke University engineer and historian. This assumption blurs the lines between the two approaches to the natural world, and could ...
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Domestic Robot to Help Sick Elderly Live Independently Longer
July 6, 2010To enable elderly people to live at home as long as possible, a group of European researchers, coordinated from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), will link robot and ‘smart homes’. The robot....
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A Power Plant for Wind and Waves
July 6, 2010Since offshore wind turbines generally work best in the world’s worst seas, you might as well try to generate wave power at the same time.That’s the basic idea behind Floating Power...
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Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics – What does it all mean for my Future.
July 6, 2010After World War II, the boost in S.T.E.M. interest and funding came hand over fist. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was heavily interested in the continuing impact of Science & Technology on the American Populous as a ...
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Applying For a S.T.E.M. Scholarship
July 6, 2010Generally, applying for an S-S.T.E.M. [Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics] grant can seem obtrusive, and overwhelming. This guide has been created to give you [the Grantee] an overview of certain criteria that might be...
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History of the S-S.T.E.M. development
July 1, 2010November 17th, 1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, asking how the successful application of scientific knowledge to wartime problems could be carried over into peacetime...
