Imperial College London researchers have created 3D building blocks that can heal themselves in response to damage. The engineered living materials (ELMs) exploit biology's ability to heal and ...

For centuries, wood has been shaped through subtractive manufacturing—cutting, carving, and milling—processes that inevitably generate waste. While recycled wood often ends up as fuel, mulch, or ...

What if your house could respond to a rupture in one of its structural beams by simply repairing itself, or bridges could patch up their own cracks the moment they appear? As fanciful as it sounds, ...

Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls. What if construction ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world's tallest building.

A new set of molecular building blocks aims to make complex chemistry as simple and accessible as a toy construction kit. Researchers have developed a new class of chemical building blocks that simply ...