An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

Take a closer look at the timeless process of making bricks, the essential building blocks of structures around the world. From digging and mixing clay to molding, drying, and firing in ...

Millirobots with tunable adhesive microstructures grip and release solids and liquids in both air and underwater environments ...

State Key Laboratory of Precision Welding & Joining of Materials and Structures, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China ...

It shouldn't be too surprising that architectural concepts were traveling around the globe long before the online spread of information. While many regions share certain historical events and ...

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering ...

moving freely in solids. However, Wigner proposed that at low densities, strong repulsion between electrons could immobilize them into a crystal-like structure. Here, we identified flakes of such ...