A video of a unique house recently went viral on TikTok. What makes this house so special is the eco-friendly, ancient material used to construct the building: a mixture of sand, clay, and straw.

Baking in the warmth of California’s Cumaya Valley stand three small structures made of an ancient building material: cob. The material is a mixture of clay-heavy soil, straw, sand and water that — ...

As part of our Building with Cob series, we've put together an overview of cob and other traditional earthen building materials used around the world, including adobe and rammed earth. Building with ...

Those purple corn chips you see in the store aren't just a gimmick – the corn's purple pigment actually has health benefits. Researchers have now devised a method of extracting more of it from the ...

Engineering professor Mark Aschheim launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code. Engineering professor launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code ...

The more colorful a food, the more nutritious it probably is. For example, purple corn contains compounds associated with a reduced risk of developing diabetes and heart disease. The cobs contain the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Houses are built of hundreds of materials, natural and artificial. Mud must surely be the most basic of them all. It ...

This video from Composition Materials shows the corn cob blasting process in log home restoration. This blasting process quickly and efficiently removes old strains on the logs. This renewable soft ...