A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can't, like ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her joy. While some people would rather avoid snowflakes and the slippery roads ...

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A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

A new study examines how bees adapt to build honeycombs on top of various 3D-printed foundations. Golnar Gharooni-Fard Honeycombs are marvels of engineering—the bees that create them will work ...

Dramatic shifts in the economic landscape have hampered morale and productivity in many organizations. However, it’s not because more employees are insisting on remote work, as some executives have ...

Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its wings in the quantum world. Under the right conditions, tiny electrons in a quantum system could ...

Pressure vessels are a significant market for composites, led by Type 4 pressure vessels made by filament winding carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) over a plastic liner. Hexagon Composites ...

3D Systems plans to sell its Geomagic 3D scanning software suite to Hexagon AB for $123 million as the additive manufacturing company looks to streamline its product offering and add more cash to its ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

Researchers used a yellow food dye used on tortilla chips—specifically, yellow no. 5 food dye otherwise known as tartrazine— to turn the skin of mice transparent. (Photo: Getty) Let’s be completely ...