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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan’s perfect climate for freeze-thaw fluctuation means potholes are a common occurrence, but how exactly do they form? It all has to do with how road layers interact ...

Wall anchors are essential tools for safely securing heavy wall-mounted items around your home. Not only that, but they also ...

Most solar panels gradually lose their energy-generating powers over time, but roughly a fifth have been found to degrade much more quickly than expected. Tiny hairline cracks and other minor ...

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A few weeks back, while out with some friends, I got talking to a couple of people who worked at a large tech conglomerate. They were contractors rather than employees of this company. They worked in ...

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New research has uncovered a critical challenge in solar energy with the discovery that a considerable number of solar panels degrade much more rapidly than expected. About a fifth of solar panels ...