The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice to ...

3D printing of complex objects typically takes a long time due to the printing process necessarily laying down a large number of 2D layers to build up the object. The process usually wastes a lot of ...

A computational design tool created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology lets you fold a piece of metal or plastic into a “complex 3D shape” like a mask or ...

It’s like origami, but hands-free. Magnetic microparticles can be mixed into rubber to make 3D printed shapes that fold, morph, and move in the presence of a magnetic field. Xuanhe Zhao at the ...

Sheets of plastic that fold into tiny pyramids, boxes and spheres when water is added have been created by French researchers. They think the technique could one day be used to mass-produce the ...

(Nanowerk News) The flexibility of RNA makes it notoriously challenging to study, as its structure can shift into numerous forms depending on environmental conditions. Traditional imaging methods, ...