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Among the many things we could do to reduce strain on the environment is find greener ways of constructing buildings. You see, cement production accounts for 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide - and a lot of that goes towards making concrete.

I'm writing this from a laptop that's stalling and refusing to switch between tabs because it's gotten too warm in the early Indian summer. It's not like I'm running a hectic workload of video and audio editing tools and multiple browsers at once: .. ...

We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked ...

Oyster mushrooms and repurposed bamboo furniture scraps may be an unlikely combination for a tough building material, but engineers have used this curious mix to create a new biomimicry-inspired tile, featuring bumps and crevices like elephant skin, ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they're being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment. Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that's just as stable in everyday use but dissolves ...

While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new self-densifying technique for creating super ...