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Gatwick airport’s £2.2 billion expansion secures approval for second runway



Gatwick Airport has received government approval for its £2.2 billion expansion project, marking one of the UK’s most significant aviation developments in recent years. The decision, announced by Tra...

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Charlotte robot demonstrates on-site 3d printing for wall structures



A spider-like robot named Charlotte is being developed to combine robotics and 3D printing for constructing homes from raw materials directly on site. The scaled-down prototype, supported by the New...

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Dozens injured in double train collision in Slovakia



A collision between two express trains occurred shortly after 10:00 AM local time near the village of Jablonov nad Turnou in the Rožňava district of southeastern Slovakia, at a location where dual tr...

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HS2 halts London tunnel construction after serious site safety incident



Construction across the London tunnels section of the HS2 project has been temporarily suspended after a serious safety incident on September 29 at the Green Park Way ventilation shaft in west London...

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No survivors found after massive explosion at Tennessee explosives plant



Authorities in Tennessee have confirmed that no survivors were found following a powerful explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems (AES) plant near Bucksnort, about an hour southwest of Nashville....

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Stanford breakthrough advances modeling of heterogeneous materials for sustainable design



Researchers at Stanford University have used a new mathematical approach to describe how heterogeneous materials such as soils, rocks, and composites are spatially structured. The team developed a so...

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Four dead after tragic six-storey building collapse in central Madrid during hotel renovation



Authorities in Madrid have confirmed the deaths of four people following the partial collapse of a six-storey building on Hileras Street, near the city’s historic Puerta del Sol. The incident occurre...

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Study warns up to 70 % of California’s beaches may disappear



A new analysis by the Surfrider Foundation, as discussed in SFGate, indicates that up to 70% of California’s sandy beaches could be lost by 2100 if coastal erosion, sea level rise, and declining fede...

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Oman-UAE cross-border rail project enters underground work



Tunnel excavation has officially started in the Al Hajar Mountains as part of the UAE–Oman Hafeet Rail cross-border railway project. Access roads to tunnel portals were previously completed to facili...

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Concrete's Carbon Capture and Structural Longevity with Supercomputing



Researchers at the University of Southern California have achieved a major milestone in material science with the development of Allegro-FM, an advanced artificial intelligence model capable of simul...

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