Engineers used Newfoundland’s Centre for Marine Simulation to better understand the challenges in designing the Chicago Spire to withstand the wind.
Subjects: General
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Disneyland’s Home of the Future
Tech giants like Microsoft and HP have teamed up with Disney’s engineers to illustrate how technology may integrate even further into our lives in the future.
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Sandia National Laboratory
Researchers are using the latest technology to simulate asteroid impacts to shed new light on what really happened during the Tunguska event of 1908.
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Parachute Simulation Room
Daily Planet shows us what it takes to become a Canadian Forces Paratrooper.
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Blimp Man
Stevie “B” Barkley builds remotely controlled airships that contain remote cameras that can be used in many situations.
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Maple Flag
Daily Planet takes us Cold Lake, Alberta, where the annual international air combat exercise that trains the world’s best fighter pilots takes place.
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NuVinci Transmission
Al Nordin, of Fallbrook Technologies, demonstrates his company’s continuosly variable bicycle transmission.
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Seal Pup Rescue
Laurance Larmour, the curator of the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary, spends much of his time rescuing and caring for abandoned seal pups.