High-powered satellites use electromagnetic waveguides to deliver energy from one component to another. Typically, they are ...

As the microscopic, tear-shaped Lacrymaria olor swims around hunting for food, it does something remarkable: In a blink, the tiny protist extends its neck more than 30 times its body length, snatching ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The way that an earwig insect folds its wings could be applied to how engineers preprogram technology to perform certain tasks, according to research published on March 23 in ...

Miles Wu, 14, won a $25,000 award for his research project combining origami and physics. He measured the weight that Miura-ori origami patterns can hold across various benchmarks. Wu said the pattern ...

Who is the beetle that can fold its delicate wings into an origami shape, keeping them safely tucked away as it scampers through dirt and debris? Scientists have long been fascinated by the intricate ...

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 ...

Without obstacles like clouds or nighttime, solar panels are ideally suited for space and eventually might even be able to efficiently beam power back to Earth. But actually getting solar panels into ...

An ancient art just got an extremely modern update. Researchers can now fold origami shapes from graphene, the 1-atom-thick sheets of carbon. The technique could be used to build tiny ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...