A judgmental family stares at a haunted vacuum cleaner in "A Useful Ghost." Credit: Best Friend Forever / TIFF Yes, in A Useful Ghost, there's a make-out scene between a man and a vacuum cleaner.

It is important to have an artificial self-replication system that undergoes exponential growth enabling modeling and control of competition, evolution, and directed evolution. Here, we introduce a ...

Research led at the University of Michigan modeled how different origami structures made from trapezoidal subunits (i) responded to stresses like compression (ii) and stretching (iii). Image credit: ...

Robotic technology is advancing rapidly, and researchers are exploring new ways to make robots more functional and environmentally friendly. One breakthrough comes from scientists at Westlake ...

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BYU's Futuristic Folding Chair. Video produced by BYU Video. A futuristic BYU-designed, origami-inspired Flex Chair, cut out of a single piece of flat material and folded into shape, has made YouTuber ...

Origami can be an interesting starting point for a project, but we weren’t expecting [Thomas C. Hull] and [Inna Zakharevich]’s Turing complete origami computer. Starting with the constraint of flat ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Job titles are still arriving (Col8 this past week). Roderick van Gelder of Hunters Hill says, “In the performing arts there is the ...

In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer. It was a simple device: an infinite strip of tape covered in zeros and ones, together with a machine that ...

The cover story in this month’s issue of National Geographic explores how origami, a centuries-old art of paper folding, is being put to use to blaze new trails in science and technology, particularly ...

Origami isn’t just child’s play. The math and science behind paper folding can revolutionize how we make all kinds of technologies. Roboticist Shuguang Li used origami to develop soft, strong, and ...