Research engineers at the University of Nevada, Reno’s world-renowned earthquake engineering lab are getting ready to shake up a million pounds of steel and sand. Construction is underway on one of ...

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 — ...

Soil and water scientist Dani Or, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, has joined the University of Nevada, Reno College of Engineering. Or is known for his contributions coupling soil ...

Geotechnical engineering remains a cornerstone of civil infrastructure, addressing the stability, strength, and deformation behaviour of soil masses and their interaction with built structures. Recent ...

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 ...

Ary Bruand is a professor at Université d'Orléans (President of the university of Orleans from 2016 to 2020). His research has primarily focused on the structure of soil and its mechanical, hydric, ...

Take a look out at this landscape. What do you notice? Credit: Shutterstock Take a walk outside. Get some fresh air. What do you notice around you? Buildings, trees, and the sky may be on your list, ...

Neighborhood outreach turned an old SEPTA lot into a community garden at 46th and Market streets. Some ingenuity from a group of freshman engineering students at Drexel University is helping to keep ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a self-watering soil that they’re hoping could transform the ag industry by letting farmers grow crops with less water.