A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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The most powerful computers you've never heard of
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Rebuilding the Oroville Dam spillways
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The insane engineering of the James Webb Telescope
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The Thames Barrier must never fail. Here's why it doesn't.
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How retaining walls work, and why they collapse
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For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.
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Construction work has begun on the German side of an underwater tunnel connecting Germany and Denmark – €7 billion project set to be completed by 2029
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Neuroengineer trains rats to play Doom in VR
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How road barriers stopped killing drivers
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The jet that terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat
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What really happened at the Millennium Tower?
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Centrifugal launch accelerator SpinLaunch completes first test flight
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Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs
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Undersea rail-road tunnel between Denmark and Germany – Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link explained
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"The Hiring Post" - How to hire exceptional engineers
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Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks – we visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like
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This MIT engineer built his own bionic leg
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More details about Facebook's October 4th outage
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US civil engineers bent the rules to give New Orleans extra protection from hurricanes
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Cosmic concrete developed from space dust and astronaut blood
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Scientists present plan to cool the world through geoengineering whiter clouds
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Why things fall off cranes
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Powering the lunar base
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Why cranes collapse
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Solar domes could desalinate seawater at a commercial scale
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Surfside condo collapse: What we know so far
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How one little boat (and me) held up miles of London traffic at Tower Bridge
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LeMessurier Stands Tall - A Case Study in Professional Ethics
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The future of airliners? The plane that may change air travel forever (Boeing X-48)
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Smarter Every Day's 'Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive' completed playlist
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How does a carburetor work? | Transparent carburetor at 28,546 fps slow mo
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How sewer pipes work (feat. fake poop)
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What really happened at the Hernando de Soto bridge?
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How does film actually work? (It's magic) [Photos and Development]
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Small modular reactors and the future of energy
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The most expensive number in engineering
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The fastest train ever built: The SCMaglev
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What really happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
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How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
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Tokyo's subway system
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The insane engineering of the X-15 (experimental hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft)
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What is "Water Hammer"? - An explanation and demonstration
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The secrets of synchronization
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Cassette history/trivia: A series of fortunate events
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Carbon Capture Convolution - An exploration of a plan to keep a New Mexico coal plant running
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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Getting an odd number of cogs in a loop to turn
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Hanford radioactive sludge removal
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Automatic pool cue vs. strangers
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