Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties into solid Lego-like building blocks. By controlling the solidity of hundreds ...

Duke engineers created solid blocks that can reprogram stiffness on demand, enabling robots to change motion without ...

If you break open a chicken bone, you won't find a solid mass of white material inside. Instead, you will see a complex, ...

Millions of tires, old washing machines, barges, warships, covering the ocean floor with thousands of square kilometers of concrete—even giant, concrete spheres full of holes: these are all things ...