Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

A pinball game is a great project that combines mechanical movement with kid-powered fun. With a 3D printer, you can create flippers, bumpers, ramps, and a launch mechanism. Many designs fit into a ...

AVOID school holiday boredom by planning ahead now. But before you splash out on expensive activity sets and magazines, try ...

From the mud, straw, and gypsum mixtures of ancient Egypt's monumental pyramids to the sophisticated underwater material ...

Penn professors Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School and Shu Yang of the School of Engineering and Applied Science have ...

At the bottom of a swimming pool on MIT’s campus, researchers keep testing a strange glider. The glider doesn’t have a ...

This paper presents a novel pipeline for estimating room layouts and reconstructing the 3D shapes of indoor objects. This task remains challenging due to occlusions of indoor scenes, which lead to ...

In 2019 alone, the US generated 66 million tons of food waste. The majority of that waste (60 percent) ended up in landfills.

Researchers develop a recyclable sulfur-based polymer that enables 4D printing of soft robots with programmable shape changes ...

For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and ...

This study presents 3D-printed CCS concrete using diatomaceous earth, achieving 142 % more CO2 absorption than conventional concrete through innovative design.

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...