civil engineering
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An Unbelievable Space Mystery Sets Up Sci-Fi Thriller Braking Day
We love a space mystery — and Braking Day, from debut novelist Adam Oyebanji, sounds like an exceptionally juicy one. It begins as a man working on the generation ship where he’s spent his entire life sees something unbelievable: a woman floating in space without a helmet. How… and who? Gizmodo has an exclusive first…
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We Finally Understand How Concrete Behaves At A Microscopic Level
In modern cities, there’s concrete at every turn. So it might surprise you to hear that, until now at least, we haven’t really understood how it works at the microscopic level — despite the fact that we trust it to build huge structures.
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Monster Machines: This Solar Wheel Pulls In Over 20 Tonnes Of Garbage Daily
Baltimore harbour is apparently only about a half step up from Rio in terms of cleanliness given that the US city’s newest green machine — a rubbish-collecting water wheel powered by the sun — is expected to extract some 22,000kg of garbage from coastal waters every day. Every day.
