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Author: Yang, Sarah Investigators Release Preliminary Findings of Levee Failures at Senate Hearing 
 Article about how "many of the New Orleans levee and floodwall failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina occurred at weak-link junctions where different levee or wall sections joined together, according to a preliminary report released [in November, 2005] by independent investigators from the University of California, Berkeley, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)." Includes links to the Senate testimony and the full report. From the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/11/02_levee.shtml Topics: Hurricane Katrina Last updated Nov 16, 2005 Invisibility Shields One Step Closer With New Metamaterials That Bend Light Backwards
This August 2008 article describes how "scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and ... cloaking devices that could render objects invisible to the human eye." Includes illustrations. From University of California, Berkeley, News. http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/08/11_light.shtml Topics: Physics Last updated Aug 18, 2008 |
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