Late one night last fall, eight flatbed trucks lined up at the foot of the George Washington Bridge and waited. When the clock struck midnight and they got the green light, the trucks crossed the ...

One approach that has gained significant traction in meeting all three goals is modular and prefabricated construction, a ...

A recent study published in Communications Materials introduced a modular assembly approach to scaling up lightweight, rigid, and programmable pyrolytic carbon (PyC) lattice structures. Researchers ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Mesoporous materials have emerged as a frontier of materials science, thanks to their unique combination of high surface area, tunable pore sizes, and ability to host functional ...

Prefabricated wooden houses date back to the 19th century, when so-called "kit houses" became popular in North America. Sold by companies like Sears, they offered affordable and convenient housing ...