What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Scientists have used LEGO brick assembly techniques to design launch pads and shelters for Artemis program astronauts visiting the moon. Their pioneering approach involves using meteorite dust to 3D ...

EIGHT centuries on, the flying buttresses of Bourges Cathedral in France still beguile engineers. The secrets behind this marvel of medieval masonry are now about to be laid bare, thanks to a group of ...

3D Printing Buildings – The Next Big Thing in Construction? In the US alone, the market value of the construction sector was approximately $1.36 trillion in 2020. With the growing need for residential ...

Chinese scientists discuss the best method for building a moon base at the first-ever Extraterrestrial Construction Conference. Topics ranged from how to build basic infrastructure on the surface of ...

One of the challenges we face when thinking about developing off-Earth settlements is what resources we could use to build our habitats – after all, we can't efficiently ship loads of concrete or ...