History is filled with stories of the great being felled by the puny. Goliath and a pebble, Achilles and his heel, the ...

Researchers at Aalto University have developed metacrystal panels: affordable 3D-printed devices ...

Materials science is the domain of understanding materials at the microscopic, often atomic, level to improve them. The most common goal is to make a material stronger than in its classical form, be ...

Thick-panel origami has shown great potential in engineering applications. However, the thick-panel origami created by current design methods cannot be readily adopted to structural applications due ...

A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can't, like windows and flexible surfaces. Using a 3D-printed pillar structure, the ...

Researchers at Aalto University believe the answer may not be more antennas, repeaters, or powered networking equipment.

In a nutshell: YouTube channel Major Hardware has taken PC cooling to an extreme by turning a case's side panel into a 3D-printed "Superdome" packed with 15 Noctua NF-A12x25 fans. In tests, this ...

Textures can calm us, bring warmth or even guide us. They elicit our sense of touch and also affect us visually. This is because lights and shadows tend to form in relation to the irregularities and ...

We see the trend in 3D technology everywhere: Movie theaters, home theaters, game consoles, 3D printers. But researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently discovered that creating a 3D ...

Three people wearing 3D glasses, reaching toward a large fish on a television screen - Andreypopov/Getty Images If you were checking out TV specs when buying a new set in the 2010s, no doubt you ran ...