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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New federal funding will help the owners of the Park Hill Apartments in Clifton complete much-needed energy upgrades in the federally-subsidized buildings where residents have been plagued by poor living conditions in recent years. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $2.25 million in grant funding…
Schematic drawing of the thermoelectric effect in nickel-gold alloys. Credit: Fabian Garmroudi Thermoelectrics enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy—and vice versa. This makes them interesting for a range of technological applications. In the search for thermoelectric materials with the best possible properties, a research team at the Vienna University of Technology (TU…
Playtime’s over, kids. There’s an unholy mess to clean up. A faulty plumbing system in a Dallas BBQ located above a Brooklyn Tabernacle church recreation space near the Fulton Mall is leaking water filled with bacteria from heavily clogged plumbing fixtures below the restaurant’s kitchen, according to a motion filed in the Kings County Supreme…
Ever since their discovery in the early 1990s, this family of proteins has been of great interest to those who study plant disease. They are key weapons in the bacterial arsenal; knocking them out in a lab renders otherwise-dangerous bacteria harmless. But, despite decades of effort, many questions about how they work remain unanswered. Researchers…
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Smart home robotics company SwitchBot — of robot finger fame — has come up with another ingenious solution for automating boring chores in your home. This one is a sizable leap toward a Rosie the Robot vision of a fully autonomous robot house cleaner, though without the personality. The SwitchBot S10 is a new robot…
CHASE BOTTORF/THE EXPRESS Joshua Smith poses for a photo next to his JS Contracting and Plumbing van. SWISSDALE — Atop the mountain ranges off the Coudersport Pike grows a fledgling business. Joshua Smith, has set out to start his 24-hour occupation in contracting, plumbing, excavating and more. Having begun back in…
Samuel J. “Joe” Wurzelbacher, a self-described working man who entered the annals of politics during the 2008 presidential campaign when he challenged Democratic nominee Barack Obama on his tax plan and emerged from the exchange an avatar of the middle class, cheered and sometimes jeered as “Joe the Plumber,” died Aug. 27 at his home…
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who briefly became “Joe the Plumber,” the metaphorical American middle-class Everyman, by injecting himself into the 2008 presidential campaign in an impromptu nationally-televised face-off with Barack Obama over taxing small businesses, died on Sunday at his home in Campbellsport, Wis., about 60 miles north of Milwaukee. He was 49. The cause was…
