Earth homes are making a comeback—and they’re built the old-fashioned way: with sweat, soil, and ancient manual labor. From cob walls to rammed earth foundations, we explore how traditional building ...

China has completed construction of the world’s most powerful hypergravity machine, a device designed to compress space and time to simulate extreme events like dam and earthquake disasters. The ...

Abstract: This paper presents a sustainability-centric design methodology for a wound-field flux-switching machine (WFFSM). The proposed design methodology considers carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ...

Abstract: This paper presents a multi-material topology optimization (TO) to efficiently utilize rare-earth permanent magnet (REPM) material and improve the machine performance. The proposed approach ...

The best countertop composters make it easier to keep food waste out of landfills, all without sacrificing convenience or ...

Chinese engineers have completed CHIEF1900, a powerful hypergravity centrifuge engineered to reach gravitational forces as high as 100 times those experienced on Earth's surface. A gravitational force ...

Space weather, particularly geomagnetic storms, can have a significant impact on Earth’s technological infrastructure, including satellites, communication systems, and power grids. The Space Weather ...

Jan. 22, 2026 Researchers have identified a promising new weapon against triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease. An experimental antibody targets a protein that ...

Jupiter reaches opposition on Jan. 10, when it will shine all night at its brightest as Earth moves between the giant planet and the sun. A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's ...