Researchers have developed a simple way to make intricate shape-shifting building blocks. The team used a computer to model nearly a million designs to find the perfect blueprint that could make ...

UPTON, NY-Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level-the nanometer scale-scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D ...

Scientists devised a new way of assembling ordered crystals made of nanoparticles. In this process, nanoparticles in the shape of cubes, octahedrons, and spheres coordinate with each other to build ...

The announcement from Product Manager Jason Toff says: It’s designed to feel more like playing with children’s blocks than working with traditional 3D modeling software. Starting with a simple set of ...

DNA’s organizing powers go big: strands of the genetic material can guide gel cubes large enough to be seen with the naked eye to assemble into groups 1. A piece of single-stranded DNA will pair up ...

The following is a transcript for the video: Narrator: These cubes? They're no ordinary building blocks. They're built to collapse, expand, and change shapes infinitely. And they're called Ghostkubes.