Base isolation is a method for moderating the effects of earthquakes on buildings. Isolator devices (either elastic or sliding) are installed between the foundation and the building superstructure.

Newsweek has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where a team is reportedly trapped with a colleague who has become violent. A man has allegedly ...

The $5-billion renewal of the Stanford University Medical Center in highly seismic Palo Alto is rich with the demands of all health care facility expansions. There are staging limitations, logistics ...

Howard University professor Claudia Marin-Artieda at the NEES at Buffalo laboratory with her research team and the "Yahoo frame." With 40 servers installed, the frame was shaken with servers in ...

After repeated complaints about the conditions of his confinement, Pvt. Jeremy Morlock has been moved out of an isolation cell at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord brig. Morlock has confessed to the murder ...

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A scientist who just returned from the remote Antarctica base where a crew member reportedly snapped and threatened to kill the team leader has opened up about the extreme, “unpredictable” environment ...

After days of being confined to their cabin on the coronavirus-infected Grand Princess cruise ship, the Winterset couple docked Tuesday in San Francisco. It was the beginning of a whirlwind 24 hours, ...

In April 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks expressed concern about the “substantial decline” in competition within the U.S. defense industrial base. A February 2022 study by the ...