It’s often said that what we know about concrete is that it gets hard and it cracks. But this is a meaningless over-simplification because it doesn’t tell us anything about either the hardness in ...

Neeley Ramey first noticed the cracks in her then-4-year-old pool in 2021 and thought they were a result of the deadly freeze that winter in Central Texas. But the fissures kept spreading for months.

Every drop of water stored in our country's reservoirs, water treatment plants, and behind dams is vital to the well-being of the population they serve and the local economy. This mission is even more ...