Lasers Help Metal Resist Rust and Ice – using lasers, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a way of “creating micro- and nanoscale structures” on the surface of metals that renders them hydrophobic; water simply bounces off metals treated in this way. The link above takes you …
Trim Tab v 24 The Water Issue – Winter 2015 issue of the International Living Future Institute’s quarterly digital magazine focuses on water, on “people and projects that are rethinking how water is used in the built environment…” Among its many good articles is one called Bertschi School: The Water Petal about the science …
60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest – striking before and after aerial photos of nine midwestern cities show the profound effect highways and other land clearance projects of the mid-1950s have had in changing the texture of these downtowns over the last 50 years. The Institute of Quality Communities at …