A Maryland startup is shipping the first commercial batches of Superwood, a densified timber that stops bullets, resists fire, and beats steel strength-to-weight. Here's the story.

A new computer model developed by US researchers could reduce the amount of material ...

How the proteins in our bodies bind together to form protein complexes plays a critical role in numerous cell functions—staving off diseases, for instance, or transporting ions across cell membranes.

In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of ...

In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7 percent of total carbon emissions. But how ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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Since International Paper abruptly closed its mills in Liberty and Chatham counties last fall, business owners in Southeast Georgia who once made the state the largest timber exporter in the nation ...

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Contractor Kraemer North American broke ground in October 2023 on a steel through truss bridge that will cross the Mississippi River. It’s the rare bridge construction project that doesn’t have ...