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Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...

In the Southwest, clay roofs have been popular because they perform best in the region’s hot, dry climate and have a long lifespan. "Tile, specifically, also has historical ties to the Southwest area ...

EMAILS and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles next to those left standing have been flying back and forth among ...

Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...

When the focus in LA turns to rebuilding, it will require difficult conversations about building materials, zoning, home insurance and more.

As California rebuilds from the wildfires, homeowners appear to be looking at alternative ways to build a home, and they are ...

Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A cleaner production approach was employed to develop an innovative and eco-friendly, fire-resistant composite material that boasts exceptional ...

NEW KENSINGTON (KDKA) - Freezing cold temperatures outside are creating a dire situation in New Kensington. Multiple tenants at the Valley Royal Court Apartment Complex told KDKA-TV they're ...

Chi Xiao, or “Crimson Skyblade”, is a superconducting linear plasma device that is intended to help scientists test building ... wall materials that are both resilient and resistant to damage ...

Curiosities like these motivated the physicist and future Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg to develop an idealized quantum theory of heat-resistant order in the 1970s ... for instance — the material has ...