For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the ...

Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

Enter the Nocs Braque – a high-end speaker which would make Spongebob's playing dice look spherical in comparison. The name ...

Parabolic microphones blend geometry with acoustics to enable long-distance sound capture with surprising clarity.

Physicists have spent a century trying to reconcile the smooth fabric of spacetime in general relativity with the jittery ...

Black holes are usually framed as the ultimate dead ends of the universe, but a new mathematical proposal suggests they might instead be raw material for building shortcuts through spacetime. In this ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

Very recently, I was invited to curate a collective exhibition with a fascinating past (and, hopefully, an even more exciting future). Ceramic Forms presents a dialogue between two islands, Malta and ...

New images reveal that stellar eruptions unfold in chaotic stages, with twisting outflows and late ejections that power ...

Researchers have developed a polymer structure inspired by a classic “Chinese lantern” that can change into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes when it is compressed or twisted. These ...

A classical nova may look simple at first. A faint star brightens, sometimes enough for you to spot without a telescope, then ...

A novel method converts industrial lignin waste into porous materials for effective removal of pollutants and bacteria from ...