Chennai: A new type of contact lens that can be worn overnight to help reshape the cornea and slow the eye's elongation, ...

Roads are essential infrastructure, but they're made with nonrenewable materials and have a significant carbon footprint, ...

The highways, railways and bridges that keep economies and communities thriving were not built to withstand rising temperatures. How can we stop them from melting down?

“If people see more cases of flooding because of poorly white-topped roads, they will believe that roads have a role in ...

A stretch of residential road in Far North Peoria will undergo a $10 million reconstruction that will see a unique type of permeable pavement used on a full city roadway for the first time.

This does not happen with permeable pavers. Instead ... Record rainfalls falling in a record amount of time will always be a problem. But, as we rebuild roads and City facilities, over time we can ...

They have started making some roads with materials that are fully permeable, so rainwater neither sits on top, nor pools underneath the asphalt. But this is being done mainly to combat flooding ...

In the past decade, road builders have increasingly installed more permeable, “spongy” roads. Pervious concrete, unlike regular concrete, usually excludes sand from the typical “gravel ...

“However, one of the difficulties in applying it to roads with heavy traffic is permeable concrete is not as strong as traditional concrete and cannot be reinforced,” Almeida said. Reinforced ...