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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Lauren writes about interior design and real estate. This year is shaping up to be a defining one for design. While trends ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For decades, battery manufacturing has stood still despite advances in battery chemistry. Today, Material Hybrid Manufacturing Inc. (MATERIAL) announces it has raised $7.1 ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like. Reading time 2 minutes There’s a very thin ...

Materials informatics sits at the intersection of experimental science, computation, and data analytics. The aim is simple: use data and models to make discovering, designing, and deploying new ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced plans to launch a creative studio that will be led by former Apple UI designer Alan Dye. As we learned earlier today, Dye is leaving his position as Vice ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...

Google on Wednesday released several new Android features, including a big Pixel Drop that brings Android 16's new Material 3 Expressive design to Pixel phones older than the brand-new Pixel 10 series ...

In stoichiometric compounds (compounds with fixed ratios of elements), the elemental ratios are dictated by chemical stability, which constrains how much the composition, and consequently the number ...

Paloma Gormley is leading Material Cultures, which has a DIY approach to material sustainability in architecture, to build the future from the ground up. Despite decades of green certifications, ...