MELBOURNE, Fla. — The 45th Annual Space Coast Seashell Festival celebrates seashells with all kinds of interactive activities. The festival on Jan. 17-18 has more than 60 vendor displays and ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem - Freelance writer Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher ...

Seashells tend to appear quietly. After the tide pulls back, they are just there, mixed into the sand, sometimes whole, sometimes worn thin. They do not look like remains at first. More like leftovers ...

Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...

Michal Kowalewski receives funding from federal agencies (National Science Foundation) and private organizations such as Felburn Foundation and University of Florida Foundation. Thomas K. Frazer ...

The 45th annual Space Coast Seashell Festival will take place at the Wickham Park Community Center in Melbourne. This year's free event features over 60 exhibitors and vendors from states including ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those of ...

A longtime Miami Beach resident spent months picking every shell to build a dreidel and a menorah that became a fixture of the city's Hanukkah celebration. But this year, the display will not return ...

Roger Abramson, 91, created a menorah and dreidel out of seashells which would be displayed on Lincoln Road every year during Hanukkah. The menorah is now likely to have to be completely rebuilt after ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

BYU Engineering is well known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, an undergraduate student made a significant discovery—a new ...