Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.

A new single-string method lets flat designs deploy into complex 3D structures, with potential uses in modular space habitats ...

Discover how modern toy design combines organic sculpting with mechanical engineering principles, ensuring toys are safe, ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

A recent study published in Nuclear Physics B examines how hidden dimensions might influence the physical reality that we ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

New 3D genome maps reveal how DNA folding controls gene activity, offering fresh clues into disease and cell function.

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Physicists in Europe have quietly turned a classic holiday symbol into a cutting-edge experiment, 3D-printing a tiny ...

In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...

Microscopy plays a pivotal role in modern biomedical research, enabling the visualization of fine structures in complex ...