If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks you may have come across a new word together with some scarcely believable images and videos. That word is tensegrity and the media attached to it ...

Prepare for brain-exploding dark magic of the highest order, everyone, because there’s a new LEGO fad going around inspiring people to build structures that look like they belong in another dimension.

Birds are bipedal creatures like humans, but unlike humans, birds have the ability to 'sleep standing up in a stable position.' A research team from the French National Center for Scientific Research ...

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way to use 3-D printers to create objects capable of expanding dramatically that could someday be used in applications ...

• Background and Aims Cables composed of long, non-lignified fibre cells enclosed in a cover of much shorter thinwalled, crystal-containing cells traverse the air chambers (lacunae) in leaves of the ...

Have you ever seen a skeleton held together with wire in a classroom or at a museum? What would happen if you removed the wire? All of the bones would fall into a heap on the floor! In reality, there ...

Engineers describe the creation of a new class of mechanical metamaterials that delocalize deformations to prevent failure. They did so by turning to tensegrity, a century-old design principle in ...