The recent so-called “snowmageddon” that hit the East Coast of the USA grounded flights, and even led to an all-out travel ban in New York City as blizzards deposited 26 inches of snow on the city in ...

There’s a fairly good chance you’ve never tried to embed electronics into a chunk of concrete. Truth be told, before this one arrived to us via the tip line, the thought had never even occurred to us.

Late last fall Iowa State University's Halil Ceylan and his research team from Iowa State's Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research installed two, 15-by-13.5-foot test slabs of ...

Concrete is pretty useful, which is why it’s the most widely used construction material in the world. But it could be argued that it doesn’t really do anything. Now, engineers have made concrete that ...

Icy roads are a big problem in winter months all over the world. Sometimes spreading salt can help mitigate dangerous conditions, but the downside is that salt is harmful to both roads and tires. That ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ride KC debuted its conductive concrete this week. As the snow fell on Sunday into Monday, platforms along the Prospect MAX line were clear thanks to the technology. Conductive ...

As much as 42 inches of snow covered the ground last week after a historic blizzard slammed the East Coast. Days later, cities are still working to clear roadways and sidewalks. Chris Tuan, a civil ...

Winter sucks. Ice sucks. Shoveling sucks. What if roads, or your driveway, could get rid of snow and ice by themselves? (…with the help of our friend, the electron.) A few days ago we shared a project ...

While the threat of an EMP attack knocking out electronics and sending the world into an apocalyptic spiral seems far off, it's good to know that someone is working to protect us from it anyway.

Something to look forward to: Concrete is the most used substance on the planet after water by volume, which is why anything that can be done to improve it would have a significant impact. Researchers ...

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 22, 2016 -- A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid afternoon in ...

Anyone who's dealing with the current snowstorm in the US will know that clearing snow is hard work and futile if there's another dump. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Chris Tuan may have put an ...