Virtual reality feels more “real” when users can touch a physical prop, but most haptic proxies follow a one-object-one-model approach that is costly and hard to deploy. A new fabric topological ...

A retrospective of the late designer’s work is coming to the Bowes Museum: here, the curator of the new Vivienne Westwood ...

A retrospective of the late designer’s work is coming to the Bowes Museum at the end of this month ...

A paper crane that flaps its wings without a single motor inside it sounds like a magic trick. But engineers at Princeton ...

Explore ‘Paper Trails’ at IAIA MoCNA, where Indigenous artists transform everyday paper into powerful stories of land, memory ...

Discover the best things to do in Singapore this weekend: events, festivals, pop-ups, food fairs and fun activities happening ...

The starting point for origami, the art of folding paper, is the Japanese culture but as this became a complex form of art its influence and popularity grew worldwide.

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Scientists at Caltech have figured out how to precisely engineer tiny three-dimensional (3D) metallic pieces with nanoscale dimensions. The process can work with any metal or metal alloy and yields ...

Good "Star Wars" 3D printer projects include an AT-AT Springie, an R2-D2 planter, a Death Star birdhouse, and Luke's ...

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a cross-section of a nickel octahedral nano-lattice generated using Caltech's new additive technique. The scale bar here is 5 microns. Yellow arrows ...

At first glance, these intricate forms might look like digital renderings or carefully engineered structures—but they are, in ...