NOTE: click on the links in the image sources and throughout this blog to see more articles on bionic design and biomimicry. Evolutionary Light Structure Engineering (ELiSE) is a systemized approach ...

Programmable material systems are emerging architectural structures but the co-design of structure, material, and external stimuli present grand challenges. A team with Northwestern Engineering’s Wei ...

Opterus’ carbon fiber composite booms, like the one shown here, are designed with high strain composites that allow them to fold up for compact storage on a spacecraft. In space, the boom will be ...

How can we make our structures stronger – so they don’t fall over? We could give our structures strong foundations. Like Isabel here. She's building her tower wide and thick at the bottom. Nice work, ...