Foam rubber might not be the obvious choice of material for a bookshelf but for Dutch designer Dewi van de Klomp, it has proved to be perfect. The designer, who is based in Utrecht, has created a ...

In a surprising discovery, Harvard scientists have stumbled across an entirely new shape — while playing with elastic bands. In a surprising discovery, Harvard scientists have stumbled across an ...

A person-shaped robot liquifies to escape a cage, then cools back into its original shape in a mold placed in the ground outside the bars. Wang and Pan et al. under CC BY-SA Researchers have created a ...

Imagine if there were a metallic device that could be transported all squished down into a compact ball, but that would automatically "bloom" out into its useful form when heated. Well, that may soon ...