Breakthrough metamaterials may make buildings immune to earthquakes

J. D. Heyes naturalnews.com For decades, architects, engineers and construction experts have struggled to find designs and materials that would make buildings more survivable during earthquakes. Now, finally, that breakthrough may have occurred. In fact, there are likely going to be many uses for so-called "metamaterials," as researchers are only now just scratching the surface of possibilities, as noted in a report by Reuters: A new way of assembling things, called metamaterials, may in the not too distant future help to protect a building from earthquakes by bending seismic waves around it. Similarly, tsunami waves could be bent around towns, and soundwaves bent around a room to make it soundproof. to read more: naturalnews.com