From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Rapid reinforcement methods for shallow soft foundations are critical for guiding practical applications in subgrade engineering. This study uses model tests to examine how the particle size and ...

Claude regularly does not continue working when it has been instructed to work autonomously in multiple different ways. I suspect this has to do with low context window (ie. needing to compact (2%) ...

If you’ve only just adopted Windows 11, one of the things that will jump out at you is the placement of the Start button on the desktop. It’s now towards the middle of the screen. I actually like it ...

In a college-entrance-exam landscape long dominated by the SAT and the ACT, a relative newcomer has started to gain traction—especially in red states. The Classic Learning Test, first unveiled a ...

More than two months have gone by since the last time SpaceX launched its gigantic Starship spacecraft. Because the Starship's upper stage exploded in dramatic fashion in June, SpaceX's next test ...

The 400-foot launch vehicle – crucial to future US spaceflight ambitions – is one that billionaire Elon Musk's company has hoped to begin getting off the ground more often. Because the Starship's ...

Take a closer look at some of today's top equipment and technology innovations helping to automate road scans and road designs. This spring and summer, we’ve talked a lot about asphalt paving plans, ...

We love our genealogy series, don’t we? We want to know if our favorite comedian had a distant relative who was royalty or, perhaps, spent time in prison. But in a new Acorn TV series, the family ...

For a second consecutive week, Hancock County supervisors wrestled with what, or what not, to do regarding ground at the site for a new county maintenance/storage building across from the courthouse.

In large-scale engineering projects, such as high earth-rock dams, measuring the shear strength of coarse-grained soils poses significant challenges due to limitations in existing test instruments, ...