Suppose you have a cylinder on an ramp and you let it start rolling down. What will be its acceleration? Great question, right? I like this because it brings in many different concepts in introductory ...

The porcelain bases of Lynn Bennett-Carpenter’s “Tensions (red)” (2015) emulate tree stumps (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The power of expectation is never so evident ...

A joint research team from Carnegie Mellon University, NVIDIA, and Adobe has published a paper on how to predict the orientation in which a rigid object that does not deform when rolled, such as a ...

MIT's CSAIL team has developed the 'Y-zipper,' a 3D-printed, three-sided fastener that quickly shifts objects between flexible and rigid states. The customizable device can speed up assembly for items ...

MIT has refined an approximately 40-year-old technique to transform flexible objects into a rigid state. The Y-zipper comes ...