A recent study conducted by civil engineers at MIT found that using stiffer pavements on U.S. roads could cut vehicle fuel consumption by as much as three percent. That savings could add up to 273 ...

Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. Sometimes they’re so little that they’re only 1/100 of a millimeter thick (about 0.0003 inches). That’s the infinitesimally small indention your car makes ...

Hard journey: using stiffer materials to build roads such as this Texas freeway could reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Courtesy: Danazar/CC BY-SA 3.0) The efficiency of the US transportation sector ...

Every time you hear a deep rumble and feel your house shake when a big truck roars by, that's partly because the weight of heavy vehicles causes a slight deflection in the road surface under them.

While shape-memory materials do have some interesting potential applications, many of them require the application of heat in order to change shape – and that could cause problems, in ...