According to a description of the request, DARPA is looking into the "feasibility" of creating "useful space structures" over ...

Additive manufacturing — commonly known as 3D printing — has become a staple area of study across engineering disciplines because of its potential to revolutionize the design and production of a ...

The MAD (Mechanical Art and Design) Museum has a mesmerising array of Kinetic Art and Automata, all handcrafted by some of the craziest inventors in the world. There are buttons to press ...

Researchers in the Netherlands have created mechanical structures that strangely shrink – or more precisely, snap inward – instead of stretching outward when pulled. It sounds impossible ...

Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? And more specifically, it’s reasonable to assert that postmodernism saved the ...

Brigham Young University’s Compliant Mechanisms Research Lab is designing space technology inspired by the ancient art of origami ... at BYU’s school of Mechanical Engineering.

Rokheyatou "Roxie" Faye is the first University of Florida student to double major in art and mechanical engineering. Faye's passion for engineering began at a young age, deconstructing objects to ...

harvest light and maintain mechanical stability. Since a fractal is a geometric shape, mathematicians can calculate its complexity, or fractal dimension — even when it appears in art.

Our Art Deco Centenary series rounds off where it began, with the 1925 exposition in Paris. We take a look at 10 stand-out structures built for the landmark event, which catapulted art deco onto ...