Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...
Tech Xplore

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...
Quanta Magazine

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

‘Wavelengths’ at University Art Gallery features work by Jewish women artists

The University Art Gallery, which is free and open to the public, makes Haskell, deRoy Gruber, Fuller and Filkosky’s work ...
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A shape that rolls uphill

This experiment explores a strangely shaped object that appears to defy gravity, rolling uphill due to its unique geometry and the principles of center of mass and balance. BC Mountie ordered to ...
IEEE

Time Consistent Surface Mapping for Deformable Object Shape Control

Abstract: Shape control involves deforming objects to achieve a desired shape. One of the main challenges of this task is to define a suitable control reference, especially when 3D objects that lack ...
Hub

First-year mechanical engineers' minicars battle it out on racetrack

Each team sent a semester's worth of work down an 8-feet-by-1-foot track for head-to-head matches that lasted only seconds, ...
Frontiers

Funnel-shaped fluid-escape structure: a clastic dyke complex formed by multiple, discrete fluidizations

1 Department of Geological Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 2 Petroleum and Future Energy Research Center, Resource Exploration and Development Research ...
IEEE

ShapeICP: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation From Depth

Abstract: Category-level object pose and shape estimation from a single depth image has recently drawn research attention due to its potential utility for tasks such as robotics manipulation. The task ...