Last year a team of students from Eindhoven (the Netherlands) built the world's biggest ice dome, with a diameter of 30 meters, in Finland. At the end of this year another team from Eindhoven ...

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 ...

Jem has set himself another challenge - and this time it requires your help. Difficulty: low Find a suitable material and make your pykrete bars. Time/effort: The bars should be frozen for at least ...

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 ...

Winston Churchill had a project to produce a 2.2 million ton pykrete (ice and wood pulp) aircraft carrier that would have been 1200 meters long and 180 meters wide. This would have made it 3.5 times ...

It’s winter, and in some places that means the beginning of snowball-fight season. If you’re going to win a snow battle, you’ve got to have a snow fort. Here’s how to make the best one. It will ...

I tried to improve pykrete for months, then tossed it off a building. I spent three months of my life trying to figure out pykrete—basically ice with wood pulp mixed in—how it works and how I could ...

There’s less than a month to go until the official start of fall, and it’s hot. Hot hot hot. As a heat wave rolls eastward from Chicago, 17 states are under heat advisories. The expected high today in ...

At the turn of this year, students from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) constructed a replica of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in ice. Next up, they're turning their attention to a bridge designed ...