For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and ...

Scientists used patterned plastic surfaces to trick bacteria into halting their own spread. These designs may prevent ...

Recently, a team of researchers led by Ayhan Yurtsever, Takeshi Fukuma, and Linhao Sun from Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Yuhei Hayamizu at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Mehmet ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Evolving lithography demands are challenging mask writing technology, and the shift to curvilinear is happening.

Move over, Ikea: Robot-knit furniture transforms from 2D to 3D With a little clever design, some fabric, and lightweight panels, these objects transform from 2D to 3D without any tools Sapna Tayal ...

This study investigated the effects of 3D stimuli with frequency ranges, patterns, and shapes on the performance and user experiences of VR-SSVEP. There were four patterns including three-dimensional ...

In a 2D the answer is two, and a 3D space can be tiled in shapes that have no corners at all, called soft cells. These shapes can be made in a few different ways, and some are shown here.

A s they came to understand the mathematics of 2D soft cells, the mathematicians began to realize that the shapes existed beyond their sketches and notes. “They were right under our noses ...