Author: WTN News

A new technique developed in a four-year project by UW-Madison engineering professors Michael Oliva and Lawrence Bank recently won Popular Science magazine's "Best of What's New" award. By adapting the technology for highway construction, it means a road bridge constructed from Fiber-Reinforced Polymer grid could...

We pull the plugs, cut the cords, and can the cables as we move deeper into our highly mobile, always-connected, convenience-centered lives. But for all the freedom and mobility, we are nowhere without energy to power the laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, BlackBerries and the like....

Business Week Online magazine calls blogs "a prerequisite" for anyone doing business, adding that even the most elite firms can't afford to get fussy: 9 million blogs already exist with 40,000 new ones coming online each day. Some attorneys are starting to utlize blogs as...