This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman. Goffman, who died in 1982, achieved fame with the publication of his 1959 book The Presentation ...

Multi-material 3D printing combines the functional properties of different materials (e.g., mechanical, electrical, color) within a single object that is fabricated without manual assembly. However, ...

A team of scientists has unveiled a method for 3D printing that allows manufacturers to create custom-made objects more economically and sustainably. University of Florida engineers have developed a ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...

Two books explore the meaning and impact of material objects in the Soviet Union. Golubev’s intriguing work closely follows a recent academic trend that focuses on how objects facilitate historical ...

With the spread of Internet shopping nowadays, purchasing products online has become possible and common. However, in many cases, because users are presented with few photographs of products and ...

Using sound to levitate something when there are other objects in the way has been shown for the first time by UCL researchers and could lead to advances in the manufacturing and entertainment sectors ...