INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2023 — The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended ...

Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student ...

Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...

3D printing of complex objects typically takes a long time due to the printing process necessarily laying down a large number of 2D layers to build up the object. The process usually wastes a lot of ...

Liquid marbles look and sound cool – but they could also be used to make miniature reactors and sensors. Syuji Fujii at the Osaka Institute of Technology in Japan and colleagues have created liquid ...

A new computational approach, built on data-driven techniques, is making it possible to turn simple 2D sketch into a realistic 3D shape, with little or no user input necessary. A new computational ...

Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...

Microsoft Office PowerPoint enables you to create various types of objects and graphics on your virtual slideshow. For instance, you can insert photos, graphs and even shapes. The program includes ...

Max Shtein knows what it feels like to suffer from a painful injury. Once, he crashed his bike and broke his collarbone. "Really painful recovery process," said the professor of materials science and ...