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German scientists just cracked the code for colorful solar panels that blend into historic buildings while keeping nearly all their power. The secret? Copying the shimmering wings of Morpho butterflies.
Nigeria's top structural engineers just unveiled an ambitious agenda to end the country's deadly building failures through stricter standards, green construction, and modern technology. The new leadership wants every building designed for safety and sustainability.
A German consortium just made it dramatically easier for architects to design buildings that generate their own clean energy. Their free online tool provides 15 ready-to-use blueprints for integrating solar panels into roofs and walls.
The University of Wisconsin-River Falls just opened its new Science and Technology Innovation Center, a state-of-the-art facility designed to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. After years of planning and construction, students walked into their first classes this week in a building designed to last a century.
Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a public building designed by Vitruvius, the legendary Roman architect whose work inspired Leonardo da Vinci. Researchers have been searching for this exact structure for over 500 years.