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The Falkirk Wheel – the world’s first and only rotating boat lift

March 24, 2014March 17, 2012 by Anand Paul

The Falkirk Wheel was completed in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project. The project cost £84.5 million and had the objective of restoring the ability to navigate across Scotland on the Forth & Clyde and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the world’s first and only rotating boat lift. How it functions? … Read more

Making the Future-MIT Professor prints her own Buildings

March 24, 2014March 17, 2012 by Anand Paul

A innovative approach to design and construction that save materials and energy and create unusually beautiful structures.

(From Technology Review, as published on January 11,2012 by Kevin Bullis)

Potentially Game-Changing Advances in Energy Materials

March 24, 2014March 17, 2012 by Anand Paul

(From ScienceDaily)

The findings of the three-phase project was published in its capstone Innovation Impact Report. The study was launched in February 2010 when TMS convened an Energy Materials Blue Ribbon Panel, consisting of 21 thought leaders in materials science and engineering.

Hidden strength of a spider’s web( @ MIT news)

March 24, 2014March 17, 2012 by Anand Paul

The silk that spiders use to build their webs, trap their prey and dangle from your ceiling is one of the strongest materials known. But it turns out it’s not simply the material’s exceptional strength that makes spider webs so resilient; it’s the material’s unusual combination of strength and stretchiness — silk’s characteristic way of first softening and then stiffening when pulled.

These properties, scientists have found, vary depending on the forces applied, as well as on the overall design of the web.

Markus Buehler, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at MIT, has previously analyzed the complex, hierarchical structure of spider silk and its amazing strength — on a pound-for-pound basis, it’s stronger than steel. Now,

A Robot can build it for you

March 24, 2014March 17, 2012 by Anand Paul

blum — Jeremy Blum '12 holds one version of a prototype robot(Credit: Lindsay France/University Photography)

(Extract From Science Daily)

Armies of Robots are coming to crawl up the towers and skyscrapers to make repairs;In near future, human beings don’t have to, leading to less safety concerns, of course speed,economy results.

Hod Lipson, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and of computing and information science at Cornell University,as his Creative Machines are going on with their latest

A 30 storey sustainable model building built in just 360 hours

March 24, 2014March 17, 2012 by Anand Paul

It is not a fairy tale! The prefabricated building , the five-star T30 Hotel at Dongting lake, Hunan province became an internet sensation after time-lapse video posted online showed it being constructed by 200 builders in just 360 hours.