Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

The squeaking of sneakers on a gym floor is usually attributed to friction, specifically a stick-slip variety that involves cycles of sticking and sliding between two surfaces. But that model is best ...

“Top-down” diamond patterning methods, such as reactive ion etching, are difficult given the material’s chemical inertness.

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

With women now controlling more than one-third of global wealth, they are spending more on art than men do, data shows, and influencing what museums acquire. By Robin Pogrebin She extracts something ...