Using a new algorithmic model, the mathematicians examined what one can do using shapes that follow these new rules. Tiles ...

Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and ...

Researchers created a sub-1mm robot using kirigami that transforms from a flat hexagon into 3D shapes and moves with an ...

The 3D illustrations are a lot more expressive and playful than the flat and desaturated style that Microsoft has been using ...

With 3D nanoprinting, we can make almost any shape we want. We can control the particle shape very carefully, and this particular shape has been predicted by simulations to form very interesting ...

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

MIT spinoff 3D prints architectural glass bricks. Evenline envisions that 3D printable glass masonry could be reused many ...

In an experiment that sounds about as safe as bobbing for fries, ESA carried out the first-ever 3D metal printing in space ...

Increasingly, pellets are being used in extrusion 3D printing. But why should you adopt them? What are the benefits? We took ...

Mathematicians have long studied how shapes can fit together to cover surfaces without gaps. However, their typical approach ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed tiny robots, less than 1 millimeter in size, that can fold into 3D shapes ...

A team of MIT engineers has invented recyclable glass bricks that can withstand similar pressures as standard concrete blocks ...