Post and beam structures, a staple in bamboo architecture, draw inspiration from the age-old technique of timber framing. Much like the time-honored methods used in traditional wooden houses, this ...

Sponges build their skeletons in a completely different way than other animals do, researchers have found. In fact, the building process looks a lot like the construction of human-made buildings, ...

The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.