The 32nd Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival got underway on Friday evening in Sichuan province, transforming ...

Visitors take in the dazzling lanterns at night, with more than 200 handmade lanterns featuring animals, mythological beings ...

The Zigong International Lantern Festival in Sichuan, China, celebrates its rich tradition by showcasing over 200 illuminated ...

In southwest China’s Sichuan province, the annual Zigong International Lantern Festival kicked off on Friday, showcasing the ...

In 2026, the Chinese and wider Asian communities will celebrate the Year of the Horse. To mark the Chinese New Year, the Australia China Friendship Society ACT Branch will hold a lantern festival on ...

A new shape shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen 3D forms without motors or wires, a breakthrough in "snapping morphogenesis" by NC State researchers led by Jie Yin. GOP ...

The day before the North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival opened, on November 13, operations manager Andrew Bowman was busy testing the lights. For two weeks, Bowman had worked 12-to-14-hour days: ...

One of Houston’s largest holiday light festivals will return to the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds next month, bringing new attractions and returning favorites for families across the region. Magical ...

(CREDIT: Nature Materials) “The basic shape is, by itself, bistable,” Yin explained. “It’s stable in its lantern form, but if you push down from the top, it deforms until it suddenly snaps into a ...

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...

Researchers have created a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting ...