According to World Health Organization statistics, 10% to 50% of residential buildings worldwide are affected by mold. High-humidity environments (such as bathrooms, kitchens, and poorly ventilated ar...

A new software tool for simulating and scoring window view scenes to assist architectural optimization and decision-making has been published in the journal LEUKOS. The software, named ViewScore.io, w...

Chinese researchers have achieved an innovative breakthrough by inventing a transparent, colorless, and unidirectional solar concentrator that can be directly coated onto standard window glass to coll...

When Larissa Novelino began her engineering career, she never imagined she would develop such a deep connection with origami. "I'm not someone who is into crafts or art. My mom still can't believe ...

Brazilian researchers have successfully developed a new type of ceramic clay that is lighter than commonly used ceramic clay in civil construction by adding sargassum algae during the manufacturing pr...

EU researchers are using agricultural waste to cultivate fungi in order to create smarter, more environmentally friendly, and adaptive building materials that can even self-repair. In a Dutch office,...

Ice cubes are popular for making cool drinks in summer, while materials science research at Texas A&M University is driving greater progress in thermal energy storage systems ("ice batteries"). ...

A research group from Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has discovered that pre-fatigue training through cyclic deformation can improve the fatigue limit of steel. Based on this...

On August 17, a research team led by Professor Wang Fazhou from Wuhan University of Technology, in collaboration with Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “"Huaxin Cement"), success...

In Canada, construction activities are frequent — whether repairing sidewalks and streets or building new houses and apartments, cement, as a key component of concrete, is used in large quantities. ...

An interdisciplinary research team at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), together with corporate partners, has developed a building hook-and-loop fastening system for the ReCon project. The syst...

Modular robots developed by Dartmouth College researchers are being applied in outdoor scenarios. These robots are assembled from cube-shaped robotic blocks composed of rigid rods and soft, elastic ro...