During St. Croix’s time as property of the Danish West India-Guinea Company, roughly 10 percent of the enslaved population escaped and formed a hidden community in the mountains. To this day, ...

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Connecticut just dodged the potential very negative impacts of Hurricane Erin, but what residents might not know is that a city here has a protection barrier for just such a storm and it’s targeted ...

While medical treatment and sanitary improvements have lessened its impact, the bubonic plague — responsible for the Black Death in the 14th century — could still be alive in your backyard. Early in ...

After an early taste of summery weather, Colorado’s mountains can expect a return to winter-like conditions this weekend with a series of storms predicted to hit the Western Slope heading into next ...

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the ...

Venturing into the backcountry is as alluring as it is dangerous. As soon as you enter terrain that has not been mitigated for avalanche risk, you take the risk of being injured or killed in an ...

An automatic three-dimensional extension of Trimble's PCS400 paving control system, a new PCS900 paving screed control system added to the paver allows the contractor to switch from two-dimensional ...

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This study established a numerical model that considers elevation conditions and slope shape factors by the modified Sadovsky formula to analyze the vibration attenuation law of open-pit slopes under ...

Ahead of the snowstorm, wind speeds pick up this afternoon, reaching 20 MPH gusts in some locations. Wind speeds then slow down overnight but increase again the following afternoon. The storm system ...