Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

When used in structural engineering, the term deflection refers to load-induced displacement, which typically affects beam designs. It can be an extremely complicated value to calculate when ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s been one year since Multnomah County launched an $8 million program meant to give people caught with drugs a choice: a jail cell or support. Around that same time, Oregon ...

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“I always use flaps for climb. I get more lift that way.” Some would call this statement perfectly logical, because flaps do increase lift and increased lift certainly ought to make an airplane climb ...

Multnomah County will shell out an additional $1.8 million to pay for construction and upgrades to its deflection center, built to give drug users an alternative to arrest. The Board of Commissioners ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In the first two months since simple drug possession was recriminalized in Oregon, officials in Multnomah County say that 91 people were referred to deflection instead of being ...

Reshoring meant to prevent concrete slab deflection under its own weight, similar to that shown in this photo of another project above, became a point of controversy among the Philadelphia hotel ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez announced Tuesday that his office may pursue charges against people caught in possession of hard drugs who fail to complete the ...

Several years ago, I went to the Saddle Ranch on Sunset Boulevard and decided it would be a great idea to ride the mechanical bull. Winston Source: Image by Nancy Wong on Wikimedia Commons Once I ...