Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

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Today’s women are navigating a complex intersection of tradition, aspiration and change. Many carry emotional roles inherited from earlier generations while also breaking new ground in education, work ...

A Grammar of Belonging’ reframes home as something carried within the body, shaped by memory, history and shared traditions of making ...

Families who cope best with inheritance tax (IHT) paperwork are those who plan ahead, say experts. We look at all documents ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

Trusts allow parents and grandparents to give money away while keeping some control over how it is used. Cash placed into a trust usually falls outside the estate after seven years. However, gifts ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Grieving families could be handing over thousands of pounds too much in inheritance tax, by overestimating what deceased loved ones' personal possessions are worth. More than four in five people ...