It wasn’t the very first question out of my mouth, but it was close.

“How can bamboo be stronger than metal?”

A tinge of exasperation swept across Diego Cárdenas’ face, but he launched into an explanation anyway.

“Metal has the characteristic that if you bend it, i

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Nearly every detail on the new Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS prioritizes performance or weight savings, from strap pulls in place of door handles to ball joints substituted for suspension bushings. A pair of cupholders are a concession to street use, but Porschephiles know exactly what this specia

ORNL’s new polymer-sand material allows this 6.5-cm bridge, made by binder-jet printing, to support 300 times its own weight. That is analogous to the Brooklyn Bridge holding 12 Empire State Buildings. ORNL

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL

A vision board is just one tool that can help a manufacturing team define and visualize its goals. selamiozalp/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Many successful athletes and businesspeople use visualization to set and meet their goals. Imagining yourself doing something or accomplishing a goal i

Kennametal used 3D printing to cut the weight of a stator bore tool from 9.5 kg (left) to 7.3 kg (right).

The latest iteration of a 3D-printed stator bore tool from Kennametal weighs just 7.3 kg, which, the toolmaker says, ensures short tool-change and spin-up time when run on a machinin

You can adopt a stretch of highway, a pond, even a park -- and now, in the City of Saint Cloud you can adopt your very own storm drain.

It seems like a great idea to me, and it's pretty straightforward. The idea is that you adopt a storm drain in your neighborhood -- and you keep it

Four years after the Fukushima disaster, robots are cleaning up the contaminated power plant.

It's not safe for humans to spend much time at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plant anymore. Four years ago, a massive tsunami hit the facility, triggering a core meltdown that earned the most seve

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NASA has reached a partnership with a company to test launch a payload to suborbital space at high speed from a centrifuge-like device that requires no rocket propulsion.

The Honda GB350 Racer by Moriwaki Engineering is a true "blue" race machine based on a rather humble retro motorcycle.

We are very used to high-capacity motorcycles that breach the 1000cc mark with ease, that we forget how enjoyable the "little" things can be. Popular aftermark