The natural world has exploited photonic structures since the Cambrian explosion: the sudden and enormous diversification of life that accompanied the start of the Cambrian period over 500 million ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

The companies that survive will look less like pyramids and more like swarms: small, autonomous AI-first pods that move and ...

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.

Capable of transforming a facade or shaping a sculptural roof form, tensile structures test the limits of our imagination (and understanding of geometry). This week’s photo set features structures ...

Through his extensive research, inventions and structural experiments, Buckminster Fuller created the term tensegrity to describe "self-tensioning structures composed of rigid structures and cables, ...

Generated Structures in Minecraft are naturally spawning structures that appear throughout different biomes that are spread across the randomly generated world. These structures are seemingly man-made ...

Stone is one of the world's oldest building materials, appreciated for its strength and durability. In ancient times it was chosen for its abundance: As a natural material, it was readily available ...

The landscape of human resources (HR) is transforming today's workplace environment. As organizations evolve, the structure of HR teams has become a subject of scrutiny and adaptation. Questions about ...