Civil Engineering News

A non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light, Oxford University researchers report

Michael Kessler has worked with polymers that repair themselves when they crack. And he's worked with polymers made from vegetable oils. Now he's working to combine the two technologies

You've seen it in movies: the human-like, robot assassin quickly regenerates its structure after being damaged beyond recognition. This "Terminator" scenario is becoming less far-fetched

Civil engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new system to better analyze the connections that hold major bridge members together

A team of international researchers led by physicists in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering has made a significant breakthrough in an effort to understand the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity in complex copper

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have succeeded in mimicking the process of bone formation in the laboratory, and in visualizing the process in great detail

Researchers at MIT have revealed exactly how a molecule called fulvalene diruthenium, which was discovered in 1996, works to store and release heat on demand

Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously

Facial reconstruction patients may soon have the option of custom-made bone replacements optimized for both form and function

Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to make sense of it