Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but intensely passionate movement is rebelling against the ...

There is no glue, no cutting—only precision, patience, and a deep understanding of form.

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, and the National Institute for Materials Science of Japan have developed a ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

Electrochemical sensing, a cornerstone of applied analytical chemistry, has witnessed significant advancements over the past 40 years. The last two decades have seen a surge in innovative developments ...

Brady Snyder is a technology journalist that has written about mobile devices and computers for multiple publications for over two years. He graduated from St. John's University with a B.S. in ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Manipulating the flow of light with nanoscale precision has been a grand challenge in optics, as it requires the ability to precisely position building blocks like metallic ...

In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer. It was a simple device: an infinite strip of tape covered in zeros and ones, together with a machine that ...

School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States Center for Applied Structural Discovery, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona ...