DESIGN

Four Paint Alternatives for Trendier Walls

DESIGN 05.03.2019 09:43 AM

If you do not have the time to wait for paint to dry, there are other ways to put some color on your walls.

One Engineering and Architectural Designer Has Big Plans for Future Cities

05.03.2019 07:48 AM

Carlo Ratti wants cities to be smarter so that we can live in them in new and better ways. Take a moment to imagine; walls made of water, mobile phones that measure bridge stability, skyscrapers that burst apart to reveal tropical gardens.

Three Smart Blinds to Level Up Your Smart Home Game in 2019

05.02.2019 11:58 AM

There is now a wider range of more affordable alternatives with new mechanics and new designs that could take your smart home game up a notch.

Sewers Could Help Clean Our Atmosphere

05.02.2019 11:16 AM

Researchers have concluded that sewer plants serving municipalities worldwide offer a major option for capturing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Although cautioning that research and development is needed before the systems could be deployed, the team identified several potentially viable paths to using sewage as a carbon sink — that is, sewer plants could clean the atmosphere as they clean water.

UCI Engineers Developed Next-Generation, Adaptive Space Blanket with Heat regulation Properties

04.29.2019 15:20 PM

The engineers have made a version with changeable properties for users to regulate how much heat is trapped or released

Scientists Designed DNA That Folds into a Smart Nanocapsule for Drug Delivery

04.29.2019 11:48 AM

Now it is possible to load and pack the nanocapsule with several cargoes, closed for delivery and opened again through a subtle pH increase

The Dead Could Outnumber the Living on Facebook by 2070

04.27.2019 13:56 PM

The number of dead users could increase to 4.9 billion before the end of the century Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a section of the University of Oxford, have made a recent analysis that predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a drift that will have severe consequences on how we handle our digital heritage in the future.

New Curriculum in Vietnam Colleges to Include "Green Building Design"

04.26.2019 10:06 AM

Soon, there will be available well-rounded courses on green building construction for college students in Vietnam.

NYC Sets Emission Cap, Building Owners to Retrofit their Properties with Upgrades

04.26.2019 10:05 AM

It is time for people to exert more effort in helping the environment cope up with the damages. (Photo : Adam Jones)Repair Work - Midtown Manhattan- New York City - New York - USA Global warming is one of today's pressing environmental issues that humanity is trying to undo.