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5 examples of English material design

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This year, the graduate work by the Royal College of Art’s School of Design places emphasis on tackling real-world issues in a responsible and ethical way. Below, we have listed a few of the best ...

Making Mars habitable through silica aerogel

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A team of researchers from Harvard University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and the University of Edinburgh suggest that regions of the Martian surface could be made habitable with the material silica aerogel, which mimics Earth’s ...

Innovation

The new passive log house

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Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart’s Institute of Computational Design and Construction designed and built a new take on micro-architecture, made solely of wood and created with computational design and fabrication technologies. The ...

High-tech

Untethered stretchable electronic bandages

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Researchers of Morphing Matter Lab and Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon University developed a new type of wearable electronic bandages with a spandex blend base that can temporarily be attached to the body. Wearable ...

Concept

Drywall bricks made of construction waste

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A team at Washington State University developed a building system made from low-value construction waste. Drywall, also known as gypsum board or sheetrock, is a ubiquitous interior wall covering is cost-effective but a very wasteful ...

The world’s first 3D printed green wall with embedded drainage

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German industrial 3D printing company BigRep revealed what they call the world’s first fully Additively Manufactured green wall with an innovative embedded water supply and drainage system, called Banyan Eco Wall. An industry-first, the prototype ...