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.

Digital tools allow archaeologists to identify similarities between fragments and artifacts and potentially recover ...

Tomorrow’s energy is about staying authentic to yourself instead of being passive or going along with others. Someone may test your patience tomorrow, but it won't alter who you truly are. The ...

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 ...

“Fix sleep schedule” features at the top of millions of New Year’s resolutions each year. In fact, it’s widely known that getting adequate rest — that is, eight hours per night — helps improve mood ...

The architects of AI have been recognized as Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2025, symbolizing AI’s sweeping influence on global industries. AI-driven technologies, including generative AI ...

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

In a rare move, all surface water rights holders in the Yakima River Basin will see their water curtailed due to lack of available water. The Washington Department of Ecology is ordering a halt to ...