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NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing (SWEET-15)…
Hi everyone, We're a team of structural engineers and contractors working throughout Southern California. We put together a weekly collection of interesting structural findings we come across during assessments. The Imgur album contains the full photo set along with additional context for each image. https://imgur.com/gallery/things-seen-this-week-during-structural-assessments-oGuWCCD If you have questions about any of the photos shown,…
Up to 13 million people in the UK face the long-term risk of coastal flooding due to the climate crisis, scientists have warned, with a “reasonable worst-case scenario” suggesting the need for the large-scale movement of populations away from a dramatically reshaped coast. Even if today’s global pledges to cut carbon pollution are met, about…
Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists have already begun charting exactly when and where billions of people can watch it sweep across the sky. Speaking at an “Apophis T-3 Years” workshop held earlier this month at the University of Padua in Italy, retired cartographer…
A discovery announced on July 13, 2026, has literally sweetened one of science’s greatest questions. For the first time in history, astronomers have identified sugar in interstellar space, a milestone that changes the way we view the chemistry of the cosmos. According to g1, scientists detected for the first time a real sugar in the…
A once-anonymous Maya scientist now has a name. Sak Tahn Waax, or “White-Chested Fox,” is credited as the author of a calendrical formula painted in Maya glyphs on the wall of a ruin in Guatemala, researchers report July 14 in Antiquity. The table of dates and calculations, recorded more than 1,200 years ago, lays out…