A team of scientists at China’s Nanjing University has developed a technique for increasing the strength of wood by removing the hollow tubes that run through its cellulose structure.  Called…

China plans to drill 15km into the Earth’s surface to hunt for fossil fuels and to learn about the structure of the earth’s crust, South China Morning Post reports. The…

The city government of Hangzhou in eastern China has switched on the first centrifuge at the world’s most powerful gravity simulation machine, South China Morning Post reports. Known as “Chief”…

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers have arrived at Rothera, the UK’s largest research station on the continent, ready to remove the accumulated snow and begin the summer construction season. Those…

A team of Chinese researchers is exploring the feasibility of producing building materials on Mars by melting its soil. The possibility of “in-situ resource generation” is being investigated by scientists…

Skanska has completed the $89m makeover of the University of New Hampshire’s Biological Sciences Building, Spaulding Hall, in Durham, New Hampshire. Designed by architects Ellenzweig to be LEED Silver certified,…

Colorado-based contractor Hensel Phelps has been selected as construction manager and general contractor for a Department of Energy project at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, part of America’s…

Turner Construction has won three contracts from three US colleges: the University of California Merced, the University of Kentucky and Case Western Reserve University. In California, Turner will provide construction…

A consortium led by contractor Turner Construction has won a contract to build an engineering and science building at Case Western Reserve University, a private research faculty in Cleveland, Ohio.…

UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced plans to build a $300m cell therapy facility in the city of Rockville, Maryland. The 84,000 sq ft site will research the immune system’s…

Officials at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or Cern, yesterday revealed more details of their plans to build a particle accelerator that is at least three times longer than…

Zaha Hadid Architects’ 100,000 sq m art centre has been completed in Guangdong’s Aviation New City in southeast China. The Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre includes a 1,200-seat theatre, a…

Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm has unveiled a dome-shaped auditorium made from precision-engineered cross-laminated timber (CLT). Just over 12m high, with a diameter of 21.6m, the…

Over 100 people have flown to the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station to undertake construction work. The “construction season” at the base usually ends in spring, but in a…

Construction has begun on Singapore’s 55,000 sq m Science Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Architects 61. The centre will replace the existing facility in the Jurong East district…

Science Gateway, an education facility at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, has opened to the public. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Science Gateway’s tubular structure…

China is planning to spend $620m building a particle accelerator that will try to answer fundamental puzzles in basic physics, such as how quarks interact to form protons and neutrons,…

A team comprising Dutch architect Mecanoo, Lola Landscape, and China’s Meng Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 1.2-sq-km “Scientists Valley” on a patch of land in the north…