Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

A new single-string method lets flat designs deploy into complex 3D structures, with potential uses in modular space habitats ...

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

Kiri Engine’s free Mesh Wrap add-on for Blender automates wrapping and scattering of 3D-scanned terrains onto base meshes for faster environment builds.

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality.

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now a major force in the U.S. economy. The rapid expansion of data centers in the United States has emphasized the challenges facing the U.S. electricity sector, which ...

National Grid is partnering with Hyperion Robotics and the University of Sheffield to trial the use of 3D-printed concrete foundations for electricity substations. The project, which is the first of ...

Shapez 2 has quickly established itself as one of the better factory sims to roll off the games industry's colossal imagination assembly line. A more focussed, yet still expansive game of automation ...

WASHINGTON — The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine's energy grid ...

Gyrokinetic simulations of plasma microturbulence in tokamaks are challenging to visualize because the compute grid follows the magnetic field lines that spiral around the torus. We have overcome this ...