Just as embroiderers, with needle and thread, can transform plain fabric into an intricate pattern, engineers can use lasers and polymers to create flexible, complex structures that could transform ...

The International Awards Associate (IAA) announces the winners of the 2026 French Design Awards: Season 1, recognising achievements across design disciplines. This recognition reflects both the ...

Abstract: As programming education scales, evaluating student code becomes increasingly challenging. In object-oriented programming (OOP) courses, design patterns are crucial for teaching maintainable ...

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 ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

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Francois Xavier Lalanne’s Hippopotame Bar fetched $31.4 million, setting a new record for the artist and the highest price ever achieved for a work of design at auction. Courtesy Sotheby's What stands ...

Another tenant has signed on to work at the second tower of the skyline-defining Queensbridge Collective project on the edges of uptown and South End. Accounting giant EY, formerly Ernst & Young LLP, ...

Every design lover shares a certain instinct. The reflex to run a hand along a smooth edge, to study how light breaks across a material, to know immediately when something has been made with care.

Introduction: It has become increasingly common to record brain activity simultaneously at more than one spatiotemporal scale. Here, we address a central question raised by such cross-scale datasets: ...