A team of scientists has uncovered a crystal that can be reshaped and programmed using ordinary light, opening a new path for ...

Nudibranchs are often referred to as the butterflies of the sea. Nudibranchs live worldwide, primarily in warm, shallow marine regions, and stand out for their flamboyant colors and diverse shapes. A ...

Tracee Ellis Ross knows quite a bit about being a boss. The brains and beauty behind the popular line PATTERN Beauty understands that one of the necessities of holding that title is having a space ...

The team used their new printing method to encode a photo of the Mona Lisa onto their "smart skin" material (left). The photo, which can initially appear hidden in the material, can be revealed by ...

Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at the shell’s growing edge. A thin strip of tissue known as the mantle secretes both the shell material and its ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem - Freelance writer Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher ...

A project at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) has developed a fabrication method that can print multifunctional smart synthetic skin. Described in Nature Communications the technique could ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve a limited set of functions. To address this ...

Abstract: Aperiodic, clustered-dot, halftone patterns have recently become popular for commercial printing of continuous-tone images with laser, electrophotographic presses, because of their inherent ...

Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...