Physicists create laser tornado in miniature structures using synthetic magnetic field

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...

Rare structure discovered hiding in plain sight on eastern NC farm, test shows

The timbers date to around 1770, predating the American Revolution.
University at Buffalo

Technique makes solving protein structures simple

Jacobs School researchers have shown how an electron diffraction technique can quickly and efficiently create high-resolution ...
Phys.org

Origami structures unfold into seamless surfaces for deployable applications

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.
Futurism

DARPA Requests Plans for “Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures”

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft carriers or massive streetlights on the Moon — is now ...