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Red Bricks Capable of Storing and Providing Electricity
Imagine powering up your laptop or phone by simply connecting them to the brick walls of your house. Researchers at Washington University...
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Aug 24, 20201 min read


Novel Self-Sealing Concrete Aims to Reduce Road Construction
With summer road construction underway, associate professor Luna Lu at Purdue University is developing a new technology that could help...
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Jul 27, 20201 min read


Dam Infrastructure Needs Increase in 2020
Record rainfall in the past weeks has highlighted the need for improved dam infrastructure after two dams failed in Michigan, and one...
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Jun 1, 20201 min read


Improving Structural Safety with AI
In a paper published by the Structural Health Monitoring journal, researchers give details on how they created an AI system to analyze...
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May 11, 20201 min read


Cohousing Helping Residents to Get Through Pandemic
Charles Durrett, co-author of the book State-of-the-Art Cohousing: Lessons Learned from Quimper Village along with Alexandria Levitt ,...
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Apr 6, 20201 min read


Seeing Landscapes Through Virtual Reality
A team of geographers in Wales, UK, have recently found a way to insert real landscapes into virtual headsets, allowing people to...
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Feb 25, 20201 min read


Civil Engineering Heads to Space
NASA has recently turned to a team of experts in academia, including civil and structural engineers, to consider the feasibility of space...
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Feb 4, 20201 min read


Commercial Drone Deliveries in the US
A few weeks ago, Alphabet’s drone unit Wing launched the first commercial drone delivery in the United States. The company is partnering...
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Nov 12, 20191 min read


Greener Cities, Greener Future
By 2050, over 65% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas, according to the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group....
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Oct 23, 20191 min read


Improved Concrete
Researchers at Brunel University London and Mutah University in Jordan have recently developed a way of making “stronger” concrete meant...
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Oct 7, 20191 min read
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