Researchers from Italy, Spain and Montenegro have developed a technology that allows the incorporation of recycled plastic into concrete

Europe’s austerity policies are harming the health of their populations, according to Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

New tools help urban planners watch in 3-D how climate change may affect their city

How to limit the costs of energy buildings? Before technologies allowing energy consumption reduction are accepted by the market, their cost has to decrease

Although solutions are manifold, he goes as far as advocating the creation of quiet refuges in buildings

Andrea Lazzeri, University of Pisa, Italy, is investigating biomass’ applications from forest-derived materials

A new device based on superconducting nano-materials helps to detect single photons with higher efficiency

How three young entrepreneurs have transformed a brilliant invention into a commercial product.

An ingenious trick improves the efficiency of direct methanol fuel cells. Will they become an alternative to traditional batteries and power units?

An autofocusing X-ray optic improves materials research and brings a generation of pocket-size systems.