What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

In desert climates, extreme heat and dry air are not just uncomfortable, they can be life-threatening. Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael of The Emerging Objects Corporation may have found a ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

For anyone casually strolling along the luxury boutiques on central Amsterdam’s high-end shopping street, the storefront at 32 P.C. Hooftstraat might not immediately stand out. Like its neighbors, the ...

As a child playing with LEGO, many of us let our imaginations run wild. With licenses for characters and objects from major franchises, or just cool brick-building sets that LEGO itself designed, a ...

Tiny, 3D-printed bricks have been designed to heal broken bones -- and could one day lead to lab-made organs for human transplant. Inspired by Lego blocks, the small, hollow bricks serve as ...

This article was written with the assistance of Shaden Jaradat from The University of Manchester. Bone bricks research credits go to Paulo Bartolo, Glen Cooper and Andrew Weightman from The University ...

It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can ...

China aims to test printing bricks from lunar regolith later this decade in a step towards constructing a permanent base on the moon. The country's Chang'e 8 mission is scheduled to land on the moon ...

As NASA goals to have a permanent presence on the moon, the Artemis program and scientists from a university in Florida teamed up as they built a new method for constructing a base on Earth's only ...

In our vernacular, bricking something is almost never good. It implies that something has gone very wrong indeed, and that your once-useful and likely expensive widget is now about as useful as a ...