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Since most of us are far handier with a pile of Legos than tools, lumber, and raw upholstery, Japanese design studio Torafu Architects has created these large scale foam building blocks that making ...

Most furniture foam is burned because recycling is hard. New 'breakomer' monomers add built-in breaking points, enabling mild ...

Leilah Gray is a fourth grader who likes the freedom to create through art and engineering with building blocks, and without the restrictions imposed sometimes by her teachers at school. Leilah found ...

Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romero’s radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading their ...

Giant foam blocks are seen along I-5 between Portland Avenue and Port of Tacoma road in Tacoma, Wash., on Friday, Aug. 10. Joshua Bessex [email protected] Q: I’ve seen large (foam) blocks ...