If you ever wished to watch the Olympics on a plastic bubble in the sky, your dream may soon come true. A group of engineers, artists and architects, led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have unveiled plans for a Digital Cloud that would seemingly hover over London.

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A couple of creative engineering students at The University of British Columbia have turned a holiday treat into an A+ science project with their report Structural Analysis of Gingerbread. Experiments included subjecting gingerbread to a multitude of stress tests to measure qualities such as density, tensile strength (how well it performs under tension), and flexibility.

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Structural engineer Ted Zoli makes bridges from novel materials that are both lightweight and disaster-proof.

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Dubai, a city that seems to look more and more like an amusement park these days, is planning to build what will be the world’s largest arch bridge in 2012. For more facts about this incredible project see this page.

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Earlier we blogged about taking your gym out on the water. But what about an entire house? This month, Morphosis Architects finished building a floating home for the Make It Right Foundation, an organization helping to rebuild neighborhoods in New Orleans that were ravaged by hurricane Katrina.

When actor Brad Pitt visited the Lower 9^th Ward, the area hardest hit by the storm as well as one of the most impoverished, he was shocked at the devastation. Determined to bring this historic neighborhood back to life and provide homes for displaced families, Pitt founded Make It Right. The foundation launched a national contest to design sustainable, weather-resistant dwellings. Many of these green homes have already been constructed (you can view them here).

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