Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Bayer have developed a seismic wallpaper that can hold up building walls during earthquakes.

Researchers in Germany have created wallpaper that holds brick walls together during an earthquake, keeping bricks from falling and giving people time to run out of the building. "Our goal was to ...

Brick and concrete are strong and cheap materials to build with, but their strength really only applies to vertical stresses. So a tall building is perfectly stable until an earthquake introduces ...