铺路机组人员将搅拌机的溜槽延伸到不锈钢电极上，该电极组成了爱荷华州立大学工程师开发的加热路面技术的一部分。然后是另一部分：大量的导电混凝土。厚厚的混合物的第一次输送滑到其中一根钢棒上……
Engineer Looks To Owl Wings For Bio-Inspired Ideas For Quieter Aircraft, Wind Turbines
Anupam Sharma从他的爱荷华州立大学办公桌上方的书架上拉出了手风琴夹。里面是小心收集的短猫头鹰的翅膀。他说，这里可能是开发超级飞机和风力涡轮机的一些线索。爱荷华州助理夏尔马说：“猫头鹰在飞行中几乎完全保持沉默。”
工程师开发用于无热焊接的微型液态颗粒
Martin Thuo likes to look for new, affordable and clean ways to put science and technology to work in the world. His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: “How do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?” said Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University…
Engineers Develop Flexible Skin That Traps Radar Waves, Cloaks Objects
天文学家说彗星碎片最好的解释是神秘的昏暗明星
Was it a catastrophic collision in the star’s asteroid belt? A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet? A dusty cloud of rock and debris? A family of comets breaking apart? Or was it alien megastructures built to harvest the star’s energy? Just what caused the mysterious dimming of star KIC 8462852? Massimo Marengo, an…
Iowa State Materials Scientist Developing Materials and Electronics that Dissolve When Triggered
Iowa – A medical device, once its job is done, could harmlessly melt away inside a person’s body. Or, a military device could collect and send its data and then dissolve away, leaving no trace of an intelligence mission. Or, an environmental sensor could collect climate information, then wash away in the rain. It’s a…