Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the ...

They were presented with an array of six shapes. Five were similar, one was not. Their task? Pick the odd one out. Initially, the birds encountered easy trials – five stars and a crescent moon, for ...

Sitting down with pencil and paper, Bejan went through the equations and calculations that govern heat flow and transfer within two similar shapes: a long roof with a triangular cross section and ...