What happens to the clothes we don't buy? You might think that last season's coats, trousers and turtlenecks end up being put to use, but most of it (nearly 13 million tons each year in […]
How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On Earth, natural resources for creating structures are abundant, but sending these materials up with us to the Moon or Mars is clunky and cost-prohibitive. Enter architect […]
Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission — to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing new things to wear. In her lab, she noticed that the bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor makes […]
There's a scary improvement taking over our cities, states architecture critic Justin Davidson. From Houston, Texas to Guangzhou, China, glossy towers of concrete and steel covered with glass are turning up like an invasive species. […]
To create the Bahá' í Temple of South America, architect Siamak Hariri concentrated on lighting– from the temple's kind, which catches the movement of the sun throughout the day, to the rainbowlike, luminous stone and […]
From loading peanuts to non reusable coffee cups, each year the US alone produces some 2 billion pounds of Styrofoam– none of which can be recycled. Irritated by this waste of resources and garbage dump […]
Every year the silicon computer chip diminishes in size by half and doubles in power, enabling our gadgets to become more mobile and accessible. However what takes place when our chips cannot get any smaller […]
Exactly what do you get when you integrate the greatest products from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials that may change … everything. Nanobiotechnologist Oded Shoseyov strolls […]
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