Wooden Wonders: Innovative Updates to an Ancient Building Material
Despite the fact that wood has been in use as a primary building material for millennia, it’s being hailed as the material of the future. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new ...
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Experimental Architecture: Testing New Ideas in Living Laboratories
Why should architecture continue to look, feel and function almost exactly as it always has, in spite of a dramatically changing world? Sticking to established conventions is often the easy and ...
Plastic Could Be Fantastic Again if We Make It With These Natural Materials
A material once seen as a breakthrough innovation that could benefit the environment by replacing animal products now litters the Earth to the tune of approximately 6.3 billion metric tons, most ...
Human-Sheep Embryos to Lab-Grown Leather: Biotechnology and Animals
Considering that it produces such controversial projects as human-sheep embryos, it's not surprising that biotechnology is often at the center of thorny ethical debates. It’s one of those fuzzy ...
Making It: 10 (More!) Futuristic Materials That Exist Today
The materials we use to create consumer products and infrastructure objects are constantly evolving as technology advances. The futuristic materials of a generation ago are commonplace today, ...
Amazing Aerogel: Strong as Steel, Light as Air
One of the world's most amazing materials wasn't created by nature - it was invented by a couple of scientists who made a silly bet. In 1931, Samuel Stephens Kistler and Charles Learned wanted to ...
