Researchers have developed a powerful computational framework that shows how carefully optimized nanotube shapes can amplify ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

A laboratory breakthrough in Japan could reshape how cars and aircraft are engineered. Researchers at Nagoya University have ...

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

In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...

The Audi five-cylinder isn’t long for this world, but it’s still around to celebrate its 50th birthday. Inline-five engines have been around since the ’30s, but it was only in the ’70s that they ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...