If you have cracks in your driveway, you might want to try a relatively cheap fix but be warned it comes with some risks.

A newly mapped fracture beneath an urban volcano has sharpened long-standing fears about how modern cities cope with geologic risk. The discovery of this deep structural break, running directly under ...

The Peruvian Andes have long concealed a mystery: a 1.5-kilometer stretch of 5,200 precisely carved holes etched into the ...

One of Manhattan’s tallest and ritziest towers is full of cracks — and some engineers reportedly fear chunks of concrete could rain down on Midtown sidewalks if a $160 million renovation isn’t ...

Introduction: The traditional crack detection method usually requires a tedious process of sensor installation and removal, which seriously affects the efficiency of ...

Condo owners at an iconic luxury skyscraper on New York City's Billionaires Row have accused the developers of “deliberate and far-reaching fraud” in covering up extensive cracking in the building’s ...

Lichen is an understated presence in our everyday world, often found clinging to trees and rocks. Its true beauty lies in its unique symbiotic system of fungi and algae, or cyanobacteria, that form a ...

Abstract: An improved YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once version 8) model is proposed to tackle the challenges of low detection accuracy and slow speed resulting from the ...

The iron sulfide mineral pyrrhotite, here viewed under a reflected light ore microscope, can break down into secondary minerals that can cause foundations to fracture, structural integrity to erode, ...