A temporary cathedral made out of cardboard opened in New Zealand last year in the heart of Latimer Square to replace a neo-Gothic structure that was destroyed in the massive Christchurch earthquake in 2011.
Cardboard cathedral built in New Zealand
Inside Bloodhound SSC: the 1000 mph car
How the Bloodhound jet car works This video combines live action with animation to show how the Bloodhound works. The Bloodhound SSC is a British supersonic car powered by a jet engine, a rocket, and a Cosworth CA2010 Formula 1 V8 gasoline engine auxiliary power unit. Still under development, its goal is to attain a […]
Laser-based infrared microscopy platform wins innovation award
The CLEO: 2014 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA) and Laser Focus World announced Daylight Solutions, San Diego, Calif., as the winner of this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award. The award recognizes the company “for the development of Spero, the first laser-based infrared microscope that delivers high-resolution (< 5 µm) images over a wide field of view in a compact, broadly tunable, turnkey instrument with rapid ‘live mode' imaging at 30 fps."
Putting iron to the stress test
Using an ultrafast laser system, a group in Physical and Life Sciences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, Calif., subjected iron to extremely rapid dynamic compression and showed that the transition from one crystal structure to another can take place in less than 100 trillionths of a second after the compression begins.
Al-Fe Wadsworth receives Nadcap accreditation for glycol quenching
Al-Fe Heat Treating, Fort Wayne, Ind., has added glycol quenching to its list of Nadcap-accredited aluminum heat treat services at its plant in Wadsworth, Ohio.