Instead of pushing straight down, the weight of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the supports at each end. These supports, called the abutments, carry the load and ...

But what is the oldest bridge in the world that is still standing? It is a corbel arch bridge, constructed during the Mycenaean Period, in the Bronze Age, some 3,354 years ago. Incredibly, it is still ...

The bridge, part of the Chongqing-Changsha expressway, won the 2025 International Bridge Conference's (IBC) Gustav Lindenthal Medal, the "Nobel Prize" of the bridge industry. The bridge opened to ...

Arch Labs, whose eponymous network is one of the many projects trying to bring DeFi to Bitcoin, had no trouble raising its $7 million launch capital from big-name venture firms last year.

Instead of pushing straight down, the weight of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the supports at each end. These supports, called the abutments, carry the load and ...