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 harmonious symmetry of limbs outstretched in both a square and a circle, the ...

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 ...

Corrugated surfaces. The wavy geometry makes such a dome stronger than an analogous structure of identical thickness with a simpler shape and no folds. This creates an opportunity for conserving ...

A majority of biomimetic membranes used for current biophysical studies rely on planar structures such as supported lipid bilayer (SLB) and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). While they have ...

Astrictive-type grippers, which generate gripping forces from adhesive forces at the contact surface, such as suction cup, are popular end-effectors as picking solutions because of their simplicity ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, a sphere-shaped UFO was filmed darting back and forth in a zig-zag motion above a city in Colombia. The orb with a silver and grey coating appeared has led to a mystery that ...