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Invisibility cloaks, once thought of as the province only of Harry Potter tales and Star Trek, have become reality in the past decade or so. Now scientists have developed an "unfeelability cloak," a ...

Engineers have been developing new technologies to enable robots and humans to move faster and jump higher. Soft, elastic materials store energy in these devices, which, if released carefully, enable ...

Animators could create more realistic bouncy, stretchy, and squishy characters for movies and video games thanks to a new simulation method developed by researchers at MIT. Their approach allows ...

Researchers in the labs of Christopher Bates, an assistant professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara, and Michael Chabinyc, a professor of materials and chair of the department, have teamed to ...

Scientists at Utah State University have figured out how to make the perfect skipping stones. The secret was making sure they were made out of a material that had much more give than stone. Inspired ...

Curved sensors, flexible sensors and small cameras are no longer new to the tech world, but Columbia University engineers made another development that allows people to capture images using a flexible ...

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 ...