A hidden mathematical connection between origami and structural engineering is opening a new path for designing complex, ...

In our modern world in which scientific visualizations increasingly look like Hollywood movies and even simplistic visualizations for teaching are using gaming engines and GPU-accelerated renderers to ...

New robotics research enables machines to manipulate irregular objects such as fruits and tools by mapping their surface ...

Biological engineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and geometric structures such as ...

A scientist from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has arrived at a new method that may help craftsmen to simulate and produce immeasurable numbers of stunning patterns of ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs ...