Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steam plumes rise from a geothermal power plant. Photo: Sam Bark / Unsplash (The Center Square) – As states across the ...

An engineer has designed a model to guide better design of thin-walled structures, like planes, cars and submersibles, to avoid catastrophe like sudden collapse due to buckling. A University of ...

Engineers looked to nature to find a shape that could improve all kinds of slender structures, from building columns to bicycle spokes -- they found an answer in sea sponges. Judging by their name ...

(The Center Square) – As states across the mid-Atlantic adopt aggressive goals for renewable energy generation, most look to Pennsylvania’s natural gas and nuclear plants to back them up. But when ...