After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open ...

You know the Vitruvian Man. He’s perhaps second only to the Mona Lisa in terms of iconic imagery in Western history: a ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has invited admiration but also bafflement. With its ...

Surface-engineered, 10 nm-sized graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are shown to be efficient surfactants for producing 3-pentadecyl phenol (PDP)-combined poly (styrene- b -4-vinylpyridine) (PS- b -P4VP (PDP ...

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and domes with wavy patterns, while also conserving construction materials. By ...

Here, we report the development and characterization of curved membrane mimics on a solid substrate with tunable curvature and ease in incorporation of cellular membrane components for the study of ...

Here, in this article, we present an all-round honeycomb astrictive gripper that has an orthotropic surface tension for grasping highly irregular shaped objects with an uneven surface. The design is ...

As the increasing of voltage grades for high temperature superconducting (HTS) devices, the research on characteristics of surface flashover and methods of improving the surface flashover voltages in ...

A team of scientists has filed a new report on the mysterious sphere-shaped UFO that was caught on camera and then recovered in Columbia.