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 ...

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level-the nanometer scale-scientists have constructed 3D "superlattice" multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is ...

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 ...

Sanding blocks are fantastic labor-savers, but if you’re sanding ornate carvings, the sandpaper typically has to mold to your fingertips. Taking the idea of a malleable foam sanding block to the next ...

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 ...

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 ...