South Africa is entering a new era of urban growth. Already a predominantly urban country, it is estimated that by 2035 more than 70% of the population will live in towns and cities. This rapid shift ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties into solid Lego-like building blocks. By controlling the solidity of hundreds ...

Duke engineers created solid blocks that can reprogram stiffness on demand, enabling robots to change motion without rebuilding.

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the lab and in ancient rocks and space dust, RNA is yielding clues that are far ...

Electrically heated elements turn from solids to liquids to provide flexibility to robotic building blocks.

It looks fragile, yet that internal structure allows a bird’s wing to withstand high winds while remaining light enough for flight. Nature rarely builds with solid blocks. Instead, it builds with ...

If you're curious about starting a resistance training routine and not sure where to begin, start with these expert-recommended movements.

Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison fabricated a regenerative photonic latch memory on GlobalFoundries’ ...

Republican lawmakers are blocking a nearly $2 million funding request from Wisconsin's professional licensing agency. The agency sought the funds, raised through licensing fees, to hire staff and ...