Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major ...

Plans to reopen a landslip-hit road shut for two years will cost £5 million, new council documents reveal. Trees and tons of soil were sent flying across Folkestone’s Road of Remembrance during the ...

Scientists tested rice under record heatwaves and found that hotter soils by themselves did not cause dangerous spikes in ...

The ageing Class 159 diesel creeps through a deep cutting between Crewkerne and Yeovil, in Somerset. On a normal day, it would rush under Kit Hill bridge at 85mph. Now 40mph is the fastest it can go.

Bearing capacity of saturated soils can be estimated using effective or total stress approaches extending the concepts proposed by Terzaghi (1943) and Skempton (1948), respectively. Recent studies ...

Table 1. Summary of test soil sample gradation parameters and sample preparation density. Rock and soil particle breakage is generally divided into three types (Lade et al., 1996), namely, fracturing, ...

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, ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often refer to the stuff under our feet as dirt, it turns out, we’re wrong. Dirt is ...

I recently got a question from a reader about where to get good soil and compost. Part of her request was for “organic” soil and compost. The Spokane region is home to a wide variety of soils ...

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation is widely accepted for assessment of a large complex biological system, but it may also lead to a misleading conclusion. The challenge is to simulate ...