Advancements are a method of marking in-game progress that was implemented during snapshot 17w13a of Minecraft 1.12. The advancement system was added to replace the outdated, "achievements," feature ...

Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With more items than ever and some retextures over the years, vanilla Minecraft looks slightly less grassroots than ...

Minecraft has loads of mods that players can download to improve their gameplay experience. The sandbox title is still one of the most popular games in the world, partially because it offers almost ...

How a game looks is one of its most important factors, especially in an age of photo-realism and ray-tracing. So, even if you're playing one of the most aesthetically uncomplicated videogames to come ...

US researchers have developed a synthetic “smart skin” that can change its appearance, texture, and shape when exposed to heat, liquids, or mechanical stress. The team used a novel 4D-printing method ...

A project at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) has developed a fabrication method that can print multifunctional smart synthetic skin. Described in Nature Communications the technique could ...

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve a limited set of functions. To address this inflexibility, researchers at ...

Researchers at Penn State have developed a new fabrication method that allows a programmable “smart synthetic skin” to change its appearance, texture, and shape while also hiding or revealing ...

A team of researchers from Penn State University has devised a 4D-printing method for hydrogel ‘smart synthetic skin’ capable of hiding and revealing images on demand. With possible applications in ...