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Last January, a medical helicopter flying from Mason City to Emmettsburg crashed in a field, killing all three of the people on board; the pilot reported encountering ice and snow just before that crash.

Now, researchers at the University of Iowa and engineers at Rockwell Collins are working on new technology to keep pilots and crew safe in those kinds of low visibility situations.

http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/news/kgan-tv-researchers-give-pilots-sight-storms

There are many books on Aerodynamics at the Engineering Library that you might find of interest here are a list of a few: http://ow.ly/qVVwg 

 

The spirit of October through Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries:

http://uispeccoll.tumblr.com/post/63659861666/in-the-spirit-of-october-today-we-are-featuring

From Wikipedia: Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists and chemistry students on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM,^[1][2][3] making the date 6:02 10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived from Avogadro’s number, which is approximately 6.02×10²³, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in onemole of substance, one of the seven base SI units. Mole Day originated in an article in The Science Teacher in the early 1980s.^[4] Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991.^[4] Many high schools around the United States, South Africa, Australia and in Canada celebrate Mole Day as a way to get their students interested in chemistry, with various activities often related to chemistry or moles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Day

What does 3D printing have to do with food scarcity and climate change?

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/09/2757331/3d-printing-food/

Underground climate change causing the  “drunken” forests of Alaska.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/09/2759181/alaska-permafrost-arctic-hudson-bay/

How not to write a headline about the IPCC’s Climate Science Report:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/30/2691301/ipcc-media-coverage/

Using a technique called high-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM), researchers in China have visualized the molecular structure of a hydrogen bond:

http://io9.com/the-very-first-image-of-a-hydrogen-bond-1426759827

Researchers just hit a new world record in Solar Cell efficiency:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/26/2681701/super-efficient-solar-cells/

How algae could create better, more efficient gasoline than corn:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/23/2665541/algae-biofuels-study/

GM’s New Plans to challenge Tesla’s Electric Battery Dominance:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/18/2640141/affordable-electric-vehicle/