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Flexible, resilient origami-inspired bridges could help navigate disaster zones
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFrom left, Yi Zhu, a Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering, and Evgueni Filipov, an associate...
The government is spending billions to restart Michigan's Palisades reactor. Why? | Opinion
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn 1954, Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss — a financier recently portrayed by Robert Downey...
Outmoded bridge design likely contributed to catastrophic loss in Baltimore
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday after a collision with a massive...
Solar panels don't last forever. Advocates work on ways to keep them out of landfills
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn 2019, the nonprofit Michigan Energy Options had just put up a solar farm. “We purposely located...
EPA Imposes Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
Time via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set its first-ever national, legally enforceable...
Firms knew of lead contamination in Flint and failed to act, lawyers argue in civil trial
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA pair of engineering firms were too slow to respond to the contamination of Flint's water supply in 2015, lawyers for a group of children suing the companies in federal court argued Wednesday ...
Self-driving car test site at U-M getting funding boost from feds
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Mcity self-driving car test site at the University of Michigan’s North Campus is getting $5.1 million from the National Science Foundation that will allow researchers in other parts of the ...
The Water Crisis No One In America Is Fixing
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis photo taken with a drone shows the continuing cleanup of portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine,...
Bats are driven away by solar farms, but fossil fuels are still far more harmful: study
Salon via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCommon bat Pipistrellus pipistrellus Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke To build a solar farm,...
You Are What You Breathe. How to Test Your Home's Air and Make It Safer
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe walls that keep out the wider world can also contain a stew of dangerous toxins. There are some...