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9/11 Attacks Spawned Studies on Structural Improvements

Nearly 10 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks that brought down the World Trade Center, scientists are learning from the lessons the devastation had to offer. Stanford University researchers are currently developing technologies, designs and materials to prevent similar catastrophes. Their goal is to reduce th...

9 September 2011
04:53 GMT

Material from the WTC Now Stands on Mars

Aluminum cuffs on both Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) are made of metal recycled from the World Trade Center buildings, engineers at Honeybee Robotics reveal. They say that they did this in order to honor the memory of the thousands of victims of the 9/11 attacks. As part of both Spirit and Opportunity, these smal...

9 September 2011
04:22 GMT

9/11 iPad App Commemorates World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks

Apple has been keen to approve a free iPad application that commemorates the tragic events occurring on September 9th, 2001 by letting it loose in the App Store five days before it was supposed to launch officially. A message on 911memorialapp.com reads: "The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present, and Future" is a unique o...

2 September 2011
12:31 GMT

Ice Age Under World Trade Center

The recent digs performed this summer at the World Trade Center in New York in order to lay the foundations for another skyscraper revealed some remains sculpted into the rocks in the area by ancient glaciers some twenty millennia ago, among which there was a 40 ft-deep (12 m) pothole. The uncovering of the soli...

24 September 2008
08:00 GMT


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