Buildings: The unbreakable bond
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed self-healing elastomers that demonstrated unprecedented adhesion strength and the ability to adhere to many surfaces, which could broaden their potential use in industrial applications......»»
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance
A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Enlarge (credit: Anjali Nair; Getty Images) On a Wednesday morning in May, Hannah got a call from her lawyer—there was a warran.....»»
How concrete buildings took over the jungle
A new book shows how concrete architecture brought the Bauhaus and Brutalism to places like Mexico, Brazil and Vietnam. Amid ferns and fronds, in the drip of a rainforest or the humid stickiness of a jungle, the hulking gray mass of concrete is incr.....»»
How India"s "slum-free" redevelopment fails residents by ignoring their design insights and needs
I'm in Ahmedabad, India, standing where families once built their homes under the shade of large trees. Today, those houses are a flattened dust bowl at the edge of a construction site. Apartment buildings are replacing the low-rise, high-density set.....»»
Apple Park needed an expansion to contain WWDC headset demos
A pair of buildings have popped up inside and outside of Apple Park, with one built to house a demonstration area for its hotly-anticipated mixed-reality headset.Apple Park's new structures [Cider Collective]Apple Park is a very large campus, but it.....»»
BodyGuardz launches Apex ceramic iPhone screen protector, claims ‘virtually unbreakable’
BodyGuardz has launched what it’s calling the “last screen protector you’ll ever need.” The new Apex ceramic-based screen protector for iPhone (and more) is touted as being “virtually unbreakable” with 10x the strength of the average gla.....»»
No A/C? No problem, if buildings copy networked tunnels of termite mounds
"For the first time, it may be possible to design a true living, breathing building.” Enlarge / Part of the system of reticulated tunnels (egress complex) of a mound of Macrotermes michaelseni termites from Namibia. (credit: D......»»
New York City Is Sinking under Its Own Weight
The weight of New York City’s 1.1 million buildings is making the city slowly sink.....»»
Typhoon Mawar leaves trail of destruction as it moves from Guam
A typhoon that slammed into Guam, knocking out power and flooding buildings with a powerful storm surge, was moving away Thursday—leaving residents of the US Pacific Ocean territory to survey the damage......»»
These floating triangle buildings could be the future of coastal cities
With sea levels rising, more cities may need to build on water. The decorative ponds surrounding the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam have been taken over by a massive floating structure. Looking like an oversized camping tent, the structure is a caver.....»»
This wooden high rise wiggled its way through two devastating earthquakes
It’s a big step forward in proving that wood buildings can go tall in seismic zones. In a single day in early May, one 10-story building survived the brunt of some of the biggest earthquakes in recent history.Standing in a clearing next to a.....»»
Strategic city planning can help reduce urban heat island effect
The tendency of cities to trap heat—a phenomenon called the "urban heat island," often referred to as the UHI effect—can lead to dangerous temperatures in the summer months, but new Penn State research published in Buildings suggests that certain.....»»
How NASA Plans to Melt the Moon—and Build on Mars
Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith......»»
New York City building weight contributing to subsidence drop of 1–2 millimeters per year
A trio of oceanologists at the University of Rhode Island working with a geologist colleague from USGS Moffett Field has found that the massive weight of buildings in New York City is contributing to its subsidence drop. In their study, reported in t.....»»
Heat-loving marine bacteria can help detoxify asbestos
Asbestos materials were once widely used in homes, buildings, automobile brakes and many other built materials due to their strength and resistance to heat and fire, as well as to their low electrical conductivity. Unfortunately, asbestos exposure th.....»»
Powerful Cyclone Mocha makes landfall in Myanmar, tearing off roofs and killing at least 3
Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing roofs off buildings and killing at least three people......»»
Apple is about to start a new $5 billion bond sale
In the upcoming weeks, Apple plans to offer five different bonds in a sale to finance its buyback and dividend initiatives, and could potentially raise up to $5 billion.Apple plans a new bond saleJust days after its recent buyback of $90 billion wor.....»»
New York becomes first US state to ban gas in new buildings
New York has become the first US state to pass a law banning gas stoves and other fossil fuels in most new buildings, in a victory for environmental activists......»»
10 best action movies of the 2010s
Mad Max: Fury Road? James Bond? Fast Five? Any of the Mission: Impossible movies? We rank the 10 best action movies of the 2010s......»»
How a ‘Frankenbuilding’ became a stunning new art museum
Studio Gang’s new design for the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts transformed 8 separate buildings into one. The new folded concrete roof that swoops across the center of the sprawling Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Little Rock is the rar.....»»
The playbook of forecasting US Treasury bond returns
Interest rate variance risk premium (IRVRP), the difference between implied (forward-looking) and realized (backward-looking) variances of interest rates, measures compensation for risk for exposure to volatility in the interest-rate markets......»»