Disaster after disaster: Do we have enough raw materials to 'build back better?'

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...
The New York Times

U.S. Again Asks New York Court to Release Epstein Grand Jury Materials

The Justice Department cited the newly passed Epstein Files Transparency Act to argue that the papers should be made public. By Benjamin Weiser Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday asked the Manhattan ...
techxplore

Building houses and growing tissue: Overcoming physics problems in 3D printing

"If building precise 3D forms using complex fluid weren't challenging enough, imagine the fluid is filled with ceramic particles, cells or fibers, and must be squeezed through a tiny nozzle without ...
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Groundbreaking achievements in physics that produced novel forms of material

Kate Gosselin budgets Christmas for 8 kids 'to the penny' after losing reality TV fortune Russian spy ship breaches allied waters, fires lasers at military planes Good news for America’s Chicken ...
Science Daily

Wild new “gyromorph” materials could make computers insanely fast

Researchers engineered “gyromorphs,” a new type of metamaterial that combines liquid-like randomness with large-scale structural patterns to block light from every direction. This innovation solves ...
The New York Times

Explosion at Harvard Building Affected Small Section of Hallway, Officials Say

There was no structural damage to the building, they said, as investigators pursued two suspects. By Bernard Mokam The explosion in a building at Harvard Medical School on Saturday affected a small ...
MassLive

Lowe’s pays $8.8B for company with hundreds of stores in U.S., Canada

Lowe’s, a national home improvement chain, has finalized an agreement to acquire the company Foundation Building Materials for about $8.8 billion, according to a Lowe’s statement. Since 2011, ...
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'It felt like 9/11' say Bronx residents after partial building collapse

Residents described terrifying moments as walls shook and smoke filled the sky from a suspected boiler room explosion. Our Fault official trailer Russia just deployed a dangerous new tactic against ...
Columbia Daily Tribune

Is Missouri basketball building its best recruiting class ever? What the rankings say

A potentially historic class is brewing in Columbia, Missouri. Missouri basketball coach Dennis Gates and his staff, as of Monday, Sept. 22, have pieced together the nation’s current No. 1-ranked ...
Science Daily

This surprising building material is strong, cheap, and sustainable

A team at RMIT University has created a cement-free construction material using only cardboard, soil, and water. Strong enough for low-rise buildings, it reduces emissions, costs, and waste compared ...
The Olympian

New home building training program celebrates first graduating class

South Puget Sound Community College, the Olympia Master Builders Foundation, and United Way of Thurston County celebrated the first graduates of a new, collaborative Residential Construction Academy ...