Whereas conventional dissipation devices employ steel to mitigate earthquake damage, the “unique” patent impressively only requires sand to protect buildings from seismic attacks. University of ...

The patent document describes the invention as unique since it merely relies on containers filled with sand or other granular material to protect a building’s structure from damage or failure during ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — On March 28, a magnitude (M) 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that extended over 400 kilometers from north to south. Said to be ...

Engineers have turned the physics of earthquakes into a tool for shrinking and supercharging the chips inside phones and wireless gadgets. By building a “phonon laser” that amplifies ripples on a ...