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Professors analyze nuclear blast safety guidelines
In an attempt to help people effectively respond to a nuclear threat, engineering and public policy professors Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff have...
Pitt Alum receives Grainger Award for water filter system
Pitt alum Abul Hussam was recently awarded the Grainger Challenge Prize Gold Award by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and The Grainger Foundation...
How Things Work: Roller Coasters
Roller coasters are truly a lesson in physics, as most roller coasters involve momentum, inertia, and gravitational acceleration, with outside propulsion...
SciTech Briefs
Senate passes stem cell research bill The U.S. Senate passed a bill last Wednesday to lift particular limitations on governmen-sponsored embryonic stem...