Surrealist Thames-side Piers Tellurian Relics

experimental study of local scouring around two side-by-side piers with raft footing

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Thames delight

Histophysiology' provided a concise and entertaining guide to the puzzles of this strange nucleus. Currently I am focused on the thalamus and sensory mechanisms; Lord Adrian's short book 'The Basis of Sensation' on sensory mechanisms, published in 1928, says nothing about the thalamus, but is a wonderful example of clear thought about, and a lucid presentation of, a difficult subject. What is t...

Vulnerability Reduction for Bridge Piers

Relics of the Antarctic tundra

Many viruses have capsids that are icosahedra: 20-sided nearspheres with triangular faces. Chuan Zhang et al. have created icosahedra consisting purely of DNA, which self-assemble from five-pointed molecular tiles. The authors’ previous research with three-pointed tiles showed that triangular faces make extremely stable building blocks. In the present work, they designed fivepointed tiles using...

Relics of Double Radio Sources

We have formed a new sample which consists of extended extragalactic radio sources without obvious active galactic nuclei (AGN) in them. Most of these sources appear to be dead double radio sources. These sources with steep spectra (α < -1.8; S ∝ ν) were identified using the 74 (VLSS) and the 1400 MHz (NVSS) surveys and further imaged using the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Giant Meterwave Rad...