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In early October 2019, when an unknown caller rang EPFL professor Johan Gaume s cell phone, he could hardly have imagined that he was about to confront one of the greatest mysteries in Soviet history. At the other end of the line, a journalist from The New York Times asked for his expert insight into a tragedy that had occurred 60 years earlier in Russia s northern Ural Mountains - one that has since come to be known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Gaume, head of EPFL s Snow and Avalanche Simulation Laboratory (SLAB) and visiting fellow at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, had never heard of the case, which the Russian Public Prosecutor s Office had recently resurrected from Soviet-era archives. I asked the journalist to call me back the following day so that I could gather more i
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Engineers at Sheffield University are launching a new laboratory to explore the blast impacts of compact explosives at close range.
Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs, became a prominent weapon in 21st-century assymetric warfare and were regularly used by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the physics of the type of explosions caused by IEDs is not as well understood as larger and more distant blasts, which have been studied and modelled in greater depth.
Backed by £1.3m of government funding, the new Sheffield laboratory will provide a safe environment in which explosive, fragment and ballistic tests can be conducted whilst allowing the highest possible spectrum of data to be collected. The data could inform ways to protect critical infrastructure and urban environments, such as buildings and vehicles, against explosive threats from close proximity.
Study calls for urgent action to address the risks posed by unsafe disposal practices
A major global study of what happens to consumer goods and other engineered products at the end of their useful life has found widespread use of unsafe management and disposal practices and calls for urgent action to address the risks posed to human life and health.
The Engineering X Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life warns that the biggest threat is from the open burning of solid waste which is damaging the health of tens of millions of people worldwide but a lack of data means that the true scale of the problem is unknown and more research is urgently needed.