A team of students from the Netherlands has demonstrated that it is possible to produce an affordable electric vehicle (EV) ...

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Unlike traditional building methodologies, modular design offers a degree of flexibility, efficiency, and scalability that is rarely paralleled. The true measure of a modular residence's worth lies in ...

There is no shortage of developers or builders who have tried prefabrication and now swear against it. I hear more and more, “we tried it and it didn’t work.” Yet, some are achieving huge success. But ...

It used to be the case for gadget lovers that you were pretty much stuck with what you got out of the box. If you wanted any upgrades or modifications, you would probably have to buy a new device ...

A partnership that began nearly two billion years ago still determines our lives today: A primordial cell took in a free-living bacterium as a “subtenant”. In the course of evolution, the bacterium ...

Americans throw away over 12 million tons of furniture every year, and most of it ends up in landfills. But are we atrociously wasteful beings, or is furniture just not durable enough? If you ask the ...

Though they won't arrive this year, Apple has revealed that the Mac Pro will live on with an entirely new design that will be easier to update on a regular basis, and that Apple-branded professional ...