Scientists copy honeybees' technique! How nature's engineering secret helped create solar panels that are nearly 50% lighter than conventional designs

Researchers developed lightweight solar panels inspired by nature's honeycomb structure. These new modules are significantly ...

Japan does not use modern nails to repair centuries-old temples. Instead, master craftsmen rely on an ancient woodworking technique

Centuries-old Japanese temples are still repaired using an ancient woodworking technique. This method, called kigumi, ...
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Origami engineering unlocks spacecraft design challenges

Aerospace engineering professor Manan Arya refers to it as the “suitcase problem,” a challenge not of clothing but of fitting ...

'Collapsible scissored surfaces' complete trilogy of metamaterial design principles

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...