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Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes
All of that water pouring out of spillways and topping levees up and down the Mississippi River has to go...
Future Robots Could Use Manhole Covers To Navigate Through Cities
Forget GPS and streaming video — future legions of city-dwelling robots may navigate using manhole covers. The ubiquitous round metallic covers...
After 14 Years of Drilling, the World’s Longest Tunnel Breaks Through the Swiss Alps Today
The Gotthard Base Tunnel, a 35-mile hole in the Swiss Alps, has completed drilling
Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 2: Water
Replacing treatment plants that use too much power, and 19th-century networks of leaky pipes
Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 1: Transportation
Defeating soul-deadening gridlock, monster potholes and dangerous road ice
Here’s What the Future of America’s Infrastructure Might Look Like
25 new technologies that will transform America's systems
A Bendable, Stretchable, Shape-Shifting Antenna
New technology adds flexibility to wireless communications, and can passively monitor the integrity of bridges and other structures
A Look Inside the Data Centers of “The Cloud”
Nothing soft, nothing billowy--just row upon climate-controlled and humming row of servers
