Drones may one day build skyscrapers

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 04, 2013

We've seen how unmanned aerial vehicles can be used for surveying. But how about being used to construct a full-fledged ...

Construction crew uncovers fossils of four new whale...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 22, 2013

Teeth from one of the baleen whale fossils. Credit: Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center Construction crews on both coasts of ...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 18, 2013

In the bustle of a city full of traffic, narrow streets, tall buildings, trees and other obstacle, GPS can have ...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 15, 2013

A meteor weighing an estimated 10 tons shattered between 18 and 32 miles above the Chelyabinsk region and Russia's Ural ...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 11, 2013

Ruin of houses after hit by the tsunami in Aceh Indonesia. During a tsunami, water isn't the only problem structures ...

Posted by Amy Materson on Jan 30, 2013

If you’ve struggled with managing your company or crew, you may have tried to improve your skill set, either through ...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Dec 10, 2012

One of the properties of metal that makes it such an attractive building material turns out to also be a ...

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Dec 06, 2012

Plant cell as seen under a microscope Scientists at the United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) ...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Oct 26, 2012

Photo credit: Babak Moaveni, and Science Daily This two-story building in El Centro, California built in the 1920s has withstood ...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Aug 29, 2012

Plastics from trees. Might your next excavator come with wood-based body panels? It may very well be and very soon. Wood pulp ...