Researchers have developed a simple way to make intricate shape-shifting building blocks. The team used a computer to model nearly a million designs to find the perfect blueprint that could make ...

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level-the nanometer scale-scientists have constructed 3D "superlattice" multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is ...

Two years ago, MIT’s Tangible Media Lab demonstrated the inFORM project, a “dynamic shape display” that, through a series of pins and actuators, could physically change shape in response to the user ...

Sanding blocks are fantastic labor-savers, but if you’re sanding ornate carvings, the sandpaper typically has to mold to your fingertips. Taking the idea of a malleable foam sanding block to the next ...

DNA’s organizing powers go big: strands of the genetic material can guide gel cubes large enough to be seen with the naked eye to assemble into groups 1. A piece of single-stranded DNA will pair up ...

UPTON, NY-Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level-the nanometer scale-scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D ...