The new facility will focus on creating ByBlocks, 22-pound reusable blocks that can be used for landscaping, wall ...

The new facility will focus on creating ByBlocks, 22-pound reusable blocks that can be used for landscaping, wall ...

Nearly half of American homes are at severe or extreme risk of facing at least one type of climate-related natural disaster, ...

For this group of young people at a Hamilton rehab hospital, building a robot from the famous interlocking, plastic blocks was also a labour of love that landed them several trophies, made of Lego of ...

For this group of young people at a Hamilton rehab hospital, building a robot from the famous interlocking, plastic blocks was also a labour of love that landed them several trophies, made of Lego ...

The problem was that creating this mechanical (and not chemical) interlocking was very difficult. Most materials simply would not do it. The researchers took a novel approach of using X-shaped ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences–Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together with the company Novonesis to develop a bacterium that "eats" individual ...

Scientists believe some plastic trash lasts forever. Rosenthal observed how bottles, toys, and food wrappers fade, wear out, yet never disappear. He started building and photographing sculptures ...

They are made by heating these chemicals at a high temperature. When the plastic is soft it can be poured into a mould. Once the plastic cools, it hardens into a shape. Plastic is a material that ...

Topological interlocking materials and structures (TIMS) represent an innovative approach to construction and material design, where individual building blocks fit together in a way that they are ...