The same technologies that Iowa State University's David J. White is developing to build better roads and foundations could also be used to build better river levees.
Engineering
Jun 27, 2011
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have found an exponentially better way to protect streams and lakes from the muddy runoff associated with stormwater around road and other construction projects.
Environment
Apr 17, 2009
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Sebastian Steudtner already holds the world record for the largest wave ever surfed, but as the giant wave season begins, the German is looking to science and technology to chase a new high.
Environment
Nov 12, 2023
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Six policies aimed boosting residential housing construction in New York City could spark the production of roughly 300,000 additional new housing units over a decade, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
Economics & Business
Aug 16, 2023
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When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants in California, Aleida Ramirez lost her job as a waitress, plunging her—along with many other single mothers—into a vicious cycle of poverty, unpaid bills and reliance ...
Economics & Business
Dec 23, 2020
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Ecuador officials announced Sunday that a fuel spill in the Galapagos Islands, caused when a barge sank carrying 600 gallons of diesel fuel, was "under control."
Environment
Dec 23, 2019
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Walid al-Aqqad's Gaza home would be the envy of many an antiquities collector.
Archaeology
Aug 7, 2019
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Construction workers have unearthed fossils in a Denver suburb that experts say could be from a rare horned dinosaur.
Paleontology & Fossils
May 22, 2019
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Beijingers are going without barbecue. Construction sites have halted work. Factories hundreds of kilometres away have halted production.
Environment
Oct 20, 2017
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday held up Intel's plan to invest more than $7 billion in an Arizona factory as a win for his economic agenda, but it's also a reminder that not all corporate commitments come to fruition.
Business
Feb 8, 2017
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