What’s nearly as strong as concrete, but floats on water? Pykrete! Pykrete is made up of 86% frozen water and 14% wood pulp (such as sawdust or paper). It’s easy to make, durable and strong. That’s ...

Steel was in short supply during the height of World War II, and there was nothing to be done but invent a replacement. One proposal was called Pykrete, a mixture of ice and sawdust that melted ...

How do you top building the world's largest ice dome? Well, if you're the Eindhoven University of Technology, you build a 40-meter (131-ft)-high model of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica ... and ...

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Last year students built the world’s biggest ice dome, with a diameter of 30 meters, in Finland. At the end of this year another team intend to travel to the frozen north to take on an even bigger ...

The Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands has produced renderings of their newest venture: a scaled model of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, built from the unlikely combination of ...