Invisibility cloaks, once thought of as the province only of Harry Potter tales and Star Trek, have become reality in the past decade or so. Now scientists have developed an "unfeelability cloak," a ...

Animators could create more realistic bouncy, stretchy, and squishy characters for movies and video games thanks to a new simulation method developed by researchers at MIT. Their approach allows ...

Engineers have been developing new technologies to enable robots and humans to move faster and jump higher. Soft, elastic materials store energy in these devices, which, if released carefully, enable ...

The porcelain bases of Lynn Bennett-Carpenter’s “Tensions (red)” (2015) emulate tree stumps (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The power of expectation is never so evident ...

Skipping stones across the water surface can be tricky. So why is it so easy to get such impressive water-skipping performance from an elastic ball? Researchers say they have answers that may reveal a ...

Curved sensors, flexible sensors and small cameras are no longer new to the tech world, but Columbia University engineers made another development that allows people to capture images using a flexible ...

In recent years engineers have been developing new technologies to enable robots and humans to move faster and jump higher. Soft, elastic materials store energy in these devices, which, if released ...