Giant sets and dioramas are taking over basements, bookshelves, dining rooms and mantelpieces. “I think I just have to get a ...

Elon Musk may be more famous for building electric cars (and solar roof panels) at Tesla or launching one of those electric cars into space with SpaceX, but his other company is about to come out with ...

Could a solution for homelessness be found in a toy box? One teenager from California seems to think so, taking inspiration from childhood distractions to design tiny homes. Sixteen-year-old Renee ...

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

Seashells are pretty tough cookies, and now researchers may know why: The mother of pearl that coats the inside of the shell is arranged in a brickwork structure that makes the shell both tough and ...