Construction site (London, UK). Image by Tim Sandle. Construction site (London, UK). Image by Tim Sandle. Engineers in Australia (RMIT University) have developed a new building material with about one ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have created a new carbon-negative building material that could transform sustainable construction. The breakthrough, published in the high-impact ...

Inspired by the material that makes up oyster and abalone shells, engineers have created a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to ...

An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...

An introductory course focused on the new and existing materials that are crucial for mitigating worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions and associated greenhouse gases. Emphasis will be placed on how ...

Over the last couple of years, carbon emission has been a hotly debated topic among scientists. In recent times, they have been pulling all the stops to find or create an object that pulls carbon out ...

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have discovered that they can make hardwood more durable by adding an iron compound to it, potentially changing the future of construction, as reported by ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...