Corrections and clarifications: This story has been corrected to describe the pedestrian bridge as a truss design, despite its cosmetic appearance as a cable-stayed bridge. The central column and ...
The chameleon changes its color by adjusting the spacing between photonic crystals in its skin to modulate light reflection (Figure 1). A research team at the University of California at Berkeley has ...
The Florida International University pedestrian overpass that collapsed catastrophically during construction last week was advertised as a “cable-stayed” bridge, but it actually wasn’t: Instead, it ...