Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Modern materials are engineered to have improved properties compared to traditional materials like paper ...

Enrique del Barrio - stock.adobe.com When it comes to examining the roots of the modern world, a new book takes an elemental approach. Ed Conway’s “Material World: The Six Raw Materials That ...

Her startup, Modern Synthesis, still uses bacteria to grow nanocellulose fibers, but then it harvests and processes them to create a range of different materials. The new approach is more like ...

The objective of the project is to merge traditional building methods with modern materials in a way that could maximize the use of local construction materials. The use of inexpensive marsh reeds ...