>> AFTER THE RESCUE MISSION IS COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION WILL START INTO WHAT LED THE TOWERS TO CRUMBLE TO THE GROUND. >> WITHOUT QUESTION, THERE IS SOMETHING SIOERUSLY WRONG HERE. IT WILL BE SOME ...

Much like the crime scene investigators on the CSI TV shows, power plant investigation teams are increasingly employing forensic engineering methods to gather evidence and determine the causes of ...

FAIRFIELD Leslie Wilder calculates how much snow it takes to clog a snow blower.He determines how well the brakes worked on a bike that collided with a car. He calculates whether a ski binding was ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. On March 15, a 950-ton partially assembled pedestrian bridge at Florida ...

Over the past three decades, Jim Wiethorn has investigated hundreds of crane accidents and generated a mountain of data on what causes lifting machines to fail. Instead of hoarding that information, ...

Forensic technology is moving forward at a rapid pace. Americans are bombarded by high tech forensics in every TV show or movie they watch. From CSI to MacGyver, investigators solve their cases and ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated on April 8 to correct which elements of the project are off schedule. State Department of Transportation officials still haven’t determined a cause of the ...

Charles W. Burkett, the mayor of the town of Surfside, Fla., is “very concerned” that Allyn Kilsheimer, the town’s structural consultant probing the June 24 fatal collapse of part of the 12-story ...