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(TNS) — Suyun Ham can’t take his eyes off a scanner. "Lower the sensors a little bit more," Ham urges an assistant. Then a barrage of data floods in, filling computer screens for a diagnosis. But Ham ...

Extreme heat forced the metal of the Third Avenue Bridge linking Manhattan and the Bronx to expand and become stuck for several hours Monday afternoon — a phenomenon that increasingly threatens to ...

A container ship colliding into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is drawing attention to potential vulnerabilities among some of America’s more than 600,000 bridges. The Key Bridge stood for ...

“It’s getting so hot that the pieces that hold the concrete and steel, those bridges can literally fall apart like Tinkertoys.” PAUL CHINOWSKY, a professor of civil engineering at the University of ...

One look at any of the bridges today and you’d think the concept of this engineering marvel might just be about two or three centuries old. That’s not the case, though. Bridges have existed since time ...