3D printers may have failed as a home appliance, but researchers at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut aren’t ready to give up on them just yet. Last year they successfully 3D-printed a working door handle ...

You won’t find metamaterials in nature — in fact they may seem to defy its very laws. Consider the nanoscale wrinkles in wallpapers that can completely absorb sound. Or the light-bending particles ...

Driving a cool truck suddenly becomes less cool when you have to slam the doors to close them, and even less cool is when they suddenly pop open for no good reason. For safety and security, not to ...

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