Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...

AI-generated 3D modeling belonged to research labs and Hollywood studios. Today, it’s seeping into classrooms, social media ...

An AI method enables the generation of sharp, high-quality 3D shapes that are closer to the quality of the best 2D image models. Previous approaches typically generated blurry or cartoonish 3D shapes.

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, ...

Researchers have developed a magnetically controlled polymer ‘Chinese lantern’ that can transform into over a dozen curved 3D shapes when compressed or twisted, an advance with potential applications ...

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...