Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Science writer Maya Wei-Haas shares insights from the February 2023 issue of National Geographic and takes us into the beautiful ...

Back in 1999, Erik Demaine was a PhD student who created an algorithm that determined the folding patterns necessary to turn a piece of paper into any 3D shape. However, the algorithm was far from ...

Reconfigurable structures that can repeatedly change their ...

If you are an experimental foodie, this might be just the thing you’re looking for. Researchers with the MIT Tangible Media Group have announced the successful creation of edible, shape-shifting ...

In the realm of microrobotics, small and malleable machines are, in the meme-y words of Mugatu, so hot right now. Scientists appear to be doing everything they can to crack the code behind what it ...

In 1953, a pair of scientists named James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick — with help from the data supplied by the research of another scientist, Rosalind Franklin, — successfully modeled the ...

If you're trying to distribute environmental sensors over a wide area by dropping them from a drone, you definitely don't want them all landing in the same place. In order to keep that from happening, ...

DNA origami sounds like science fiction, but for HIV vaccine researchers it is becoming a practical design tool. By folding strands of DNA into tiny three-dimensional scaffolds, scientists can arrange ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This artist creates intricate origami designs that change shapes. Jasen Zhang uses modular-origami techniques to make ...

Kota Hiratsuka creates origami shapes but his work has an additional element that sets him apart. His paper mosaics change shape and appearance depending on the viewer's angle. With only a ruler and a ...

These could be the stuff of nightmares — if they weren’t so damn cute. Scientists at the University of Washington have developed adorable little electronic “microfliers,” the size of a postage stamp, ...

Thought LeadersEbbe Sloth Andersen, Ph.D.Associate Professor, iNANOAarhus University In this interview, AZoNano speaks with Associate Professor Ebbe Sloth Andersen from Aarhus University about a new ...