Concrete created by two University of Nebraska professors can be heated to melt snow and ice without chemicals or mechanical clearing. Acceptance has been slow since it was developed and successfully ...

As much as 42 inches of snow covered the ground last week after a historic blizzard slammed the East Coast. Days later, cities are still working to clear roadways and sidewalks. Chris Tuan, a civil ...

Concrete is pretty useful, which is why it’s the most widely used construction material in the world. But it could be argued that it doesn’t really do anything. Now, engineers have made concrete that ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ride KC debuted its conductive concrete this week. As the snow fell on Sunday into Monday, platforms along the Prospect MAX line were clear thanks to the technology. Conductive ...

The recent so-called “snowmageddon” that hit the East Coast of the USA grounded flights, and even led to an all-out travel ban in New York City as blizzards deposited 26 inches of snow on the city in ...

Late last fall Iowa State University's Halil Ceylan and his research team from Iowa State's Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research installed two, 15-by-13.5-foot test slabs of ...

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 22, 2016 -- A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid afternoon in ...

Winter sucks. Ice sucks. Shoveling sucks. What if roads, or your driveway, could get rid of snow and ice by themselves? (…with the help of our friend, the electron.) A few days ago we shared a project ...

Something to look forward to: Concrete is the most used substance on the planet after water by volume, which is why anything that can be done to improve it would have a significant impact. Researchers ...

A team of researchers from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) will soon demonstrate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a rather unique concept for melting the ice and snow resting atop ...

While the threat of an EMP attack knocking out electronics and sending the world into an apocalyptic spiral seems far off, it's good to know that someone is working to protect us from it anyway.