The new Large-Scale Laminar Soil Box System is the latest addition to the University of Nevada, Reno’s world-renowned earthquake engineering complex. It is the largest such facility in the U.S. and ...

Madhur Atreya working in the lab. New research from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering into biodegradable sensors may change the way farmers track, measure, and respond in real time ...

AMES, Iowa – The satellite images are full of red warnings: Miles and miles of bright red along the Louisiana coast; boiling reds covering most of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. The images show harmful ...

Growing up in Haiti, Northwestern Engineering’s Ludmilla Aristilde looked critically at the land and thought about how soil sustains plants. This came naturally; her father was both an educator and ...

With 2,500 billion tons of carbon, soil is one of Earth’s largest carbon sinks. The new findings could help researchers predict which soil chemistries are most favorable for trapping carbon — ...

At the Arcadia flood risk management project, in Arcadia, Wisconsin, geotechnical staff are gathering data using a unique method of subsurface exploration. The Cone Penetrometer Test, or CPT, is one ...

A type of grass that was once a staple of the American prairie can remove soil laden with PCBs, toxic chemicals once used for cooling and other industrial purposes, a study has found. University of ...

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