The natural world has exploited photonic structures since the Cambrian explosion: the sudden and enormous diversification of life that accompanied the start of the Cambrian period over 500 million ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...

Purdue University researchers have improved upon traditional solar energy structures used in agrivoltaic farming, a sustainable system that generates electricity from the sun while row crops like corn ...

The companies that survive will look less like pyramids and more like swarms: small, autonomous AI-first pods that move and ...

Through his extensive research, inventions and structural experiments, Buckminster Fuller created the term tensegrity to describe "self-tensioning structures composed of rigid structures and cables, ...

Stone is one of the world's oldest building materials, appreciated for its strength and durability. In ancient times it was chosen for its abundance: As a natural material, it was readily available ...

The landscape of human resources (HR) is transforming today's workplace environment. As organizations evolve, the structure of HR teams has become a subject of scrutiny and adaptation. Questions about ...

The wildfires that ripped through Northern California this month destroyed at least 8,400 homes and buildings, according to state officials. Using satellite imagery and data released by Cal Fire, ...