Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

MIT aims to make house construction more sustainable by using discarded plastics to print structural components.

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AI agents can handle physics-based modeling complexity while engineers focus on design judgment and tradeoffs.

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Mohanty and a multi-institution team demonstrated a fast, explicit approach to constructing lossless vertex expansion networks.

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Modern disasters rarely occur because safety standards were absent. They occur because, at the moment of need, no one could evidence whether safety still ...