Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are trying to fundamentally change your impression of the good ol' red brick. Yes, the red bricks often used in construction material, the ones that ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. This is quite possibly one of the largest game-changing discoveries of the last few decades, where scientists have effectively turned red bricks into ...

It does not need to be new to create an innovation that will revolutionize energy sustainability on the planet. An old, cheap material used to create strong and sturdy houses, the red brick, can now ...

Brick walls might some day power your lights and laptop, thanks to a new technique that converts building blocks into battery-like devices (Nat. Commun. 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17708-1). By ...

Behold the brick. The red, six-sided rectangle that changed the world. Its ubiquity renders it almost invisible, a hidden-in-plain-sight part of our built environment, whose fascinating history and ...