Engineers attempting to make solar energy more affordable for the average user have long faced a conundrum. Solar panels capture much more energy when they can shift to follow the movement of the sun ...

A metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight. Metamaterials have structures not found in nature, which can give them unusual ...

Hone your knife skills, and you can recreate semblances of 10 works of the Mod­ernist master with this challenging collection of model templates devised by British paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey. The ...