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Future Parking Lots Will Filter Disgusting Storm Water With Sponge-Like Concrete
Technology The EPA is testing three types of porous pavement to keep pollutants out of underground water Most parking lots may resemble a man-made wasteland even with cars sitting on top of them. But...
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Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 1: Transportation
Technology Defeating soul-deadening gridlock, monster potholes and dangerous road ice Chicago road crews are scrambling to fill 67,000 potholes a month. Communities in Pennsylvania rely on...
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Engineered Bacteria Can Fill Cracks In Aging Concrete
Technology Researchers at the University of Newcastle in the UK have created a new kind of concrete glue that can patch up the cracks in concrete structures, restoring buildings that… Researchers at...
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Reimagining Buildings Of The Past With The Materials Of The Future
Science PopSci thought experiment: If we were to make a famous building today, what would we do differently? Two architects and a civil engineer weigh in. Part of the reason we're enamored with our...
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How To Make Your Own (Floating!) Concrete Boat
DIY Rock the boat using the physics of buoyancy The Greek polymath Archimedes is said to have solved the mystery of buoyancy in a bathtub. Even if the story is apocryphal, his principle isn't: If an...
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Man 3-D Prints A Concrete Castle In His Backyard
Technology Some Minnesotan suburbanites have got a handy neighbor. This is a castle that a man 3-D printed from concrete, using a printer he built himself. We like how variations in the concrete's...
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This Futuristic Concrete Heals Itself With Built-In Bacteria
Technology A solid idea Concrete has been a go-to building material since Roman times. It’s durable, easy to make, and relatively inexpensive. There’s just one problem: It has a tendency to…
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Researchers Mix Up Batches Of Martian Concrete
Space Made with sulfur, the material could build smelly but sturdy structures on the red planet To survive on Mars for the long-term, we're going to need to live in something slightly better than a...
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A Building That Eats Smog
Technology Take that, air pollution A new construction material could make the concrete jungle function a bit more like a natural one. A new construction material could make the concrete jungle...
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Ancient Romans were way better at making concrete
Science The ocean didn't break it down— it only made it stronger. Romans were better than us at a lot of things. Read on.
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