When I was a kid, I discovered a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that posed one of my own burning questions: How do they know the load limit on bridges? Calvin’s dad (incorrectly) tells him, “They drive ...

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The waters off Yonaguni Island have carried a quiet question for nearly four decades. In 1986, a local dive tour operator noticed large stone shapes on the seabed that did not sit easily with the ...

A dredging company began construction on Tuesday of a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee designed to block a wedge of Gulf of Mexico saltwater from reaching public and industrial water supply intakes on ...