A perfect solution for tiny apartments, the Living Cube by Till Könneker combines several functions into one compact structure in the form of a freestanding cube. In addition to offering storage in ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...

While creating a presentation for school or office, you might need to merge two shapes in Microsoft PowerPoint. Let’s assume that you are trying to show a comparison in your PowerPoint presentation, ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

How a special nitinol compound and 3D printing was used to create the shape-shifting antenna. An overview of materials and heating problems they encountered, and how they overcame them. The test ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

MARFA, Texas, Sept 26 (Reuters) - (This Sept. 26 story has been corrected to say the area of expansion is 60 acres, not 40 acres, in paragraph 2) It looks like any other 3D printer - except it's the ...

MARFA, Texas — It looks like any other 3D printer — except it’s the size of a crane and is, layer by layer, building a hotel in the Texan desert. El Cosmico, an existing hotel and campground on the ...