In an outdoor SMU parking lot lab, students are getting their hands dirty—doing good. "This is genuinely one of the most fun parts of this job," said Xander Kirkland. "We do a lot of stuff with ...

A Chicago-based company wants to help people create an amazing machine that transforms dirt into durable building bricks. The Liberator is a large compressed earth brick press that makes it possible ...

Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk made a surprise announcement last week: He was thinking about making bricks. The Boring Company, Musk's tunneling project, creates tons of dirt that could be ...

CUSTER – The Midwest Renewable Energy Association, Open Source Ecology and Mid-State Technical College are partnering to offer a three-day Compressed Earth Brick Machine Design and Build Course. The ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Extreme manufacturing techniques were on display June 17 to 19 at Mid-State Technical College’s Wisconsin Rapids Campus. A three-day workshop led by Marcin Jakubowski, founder of ...