With a bit of processing, common materials can be made into high-performance building materials, such as pollution-eating roofing and concrete. In some applications, fiberglass insulat…

Present-day lithium batteries are efficient but involve a range of resource and environmental problems. Using materials from alfalfa (lucerne seed), pine resin and a clever recycling str…

Vancouver startup Nanozen is a creating real-time, wearable particle sensor for use in mines, sawmills and other industrial locations where dust and other particles can lead to dangerous e…

For the most part, our wood and carbon fibre objects are solid, inert and boring lumps. They don’t bend or curl — or at least, they aren’t supposed to.  But Massachusetts Institute of Technolog…

Slope is a major factor affecting forest harvesting machine productivity. As ground-based harvesting methods are generally cheaper than the alternatives, forest managers need to know wh…

The animal kingdom contains many examples of efficient forms of locomotion, so it’s no wonder that we’ve been seeing a lot of animal-inspired robots. Plants, however, just sit…