Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

MIT aims to make house construction more sustainable by using discarded plastics to print structural components.

In 2023, after earning a PhD in structural engineering from Wuhan University, Chen made a surprising career choice. Instead of joining a university lab or research institute, he accepted a frontline ...

Q: I found a house that I really like, but the home inspection report says there may be foundation problems. How can I determine the cost to fix the foundation, and if in it actually needs to be ...

AI agents can handle physics-based modeling complexity while engineers focus on design judgment and tradeoffs.

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DeepMind's Aletheia is a huge advance in AI-driven mathematical reasoning. It is a research agent built on top of Gemini Deep ...

Flawed electricity pricing policy and tariff regulation are deepening South Africa’s municipal electricity crisis, with experts arguing that the current tariff methodology is fundamentally broken.

Across the American West, shrinking reservoirs are exposing more than cracked shorelines and stranded boat ramps. As water levels fall, long buried towns, cultural sites and industrial leftovers are ...

Mohanty and a multi-institution team demonstrated a fast, explicit approach to constructing lossless vertex expansion networks.

Akshit Baru In the lexicon of political economy, election-year budgets are almost invariably associated with the “political business cycle”-a phenomenon where incumbents ramp up populist spending to ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than ...