Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material ...

After a major natural disaster, one of the biggest challenges is how to quickly rebuild basic infrastructure. A lot of logistics are required to ship everything needed to build a bridge or house–and, ...

A colorful art installation is now on display at Galleria Dallas, but it is about much more than beauty. It is the work of two North Texas sisters who turned a family tradition into a global mission.

Beneath the moon's cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar ...

Rising rates of heart rhythm problems are colliding with an aging population and crowded hospitals. At the same time, many people still rely on bulky monitors and sticky disposable patches to track ...

For an object we carry, curse, and replace with alarming regularity, the umbrella has barely evolved. Too small, too flimsy, ...

“Origami wasn’t available at a large scale in packaging applications,” says Jarmo Kouko, a research team leader at VTT, a research and technology company owned by the Finnish government. “I thought it ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

Plasmonic sensors are extremely promising candidates for label-free single-molecule analysis but require exquisite control over the physical arrangement of metallic nanostructures. Here we employ self ...