For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

This course presents the fundamental principles of structural analysis, determination of reactions, internal forces and deflections under the static load conditions. The course is mainly focused to ...

THIS well-known text-book has been largely rewritten and enlarged for the present fourth edition. In the preface Prof. Bovey states that a number of fresh examples, mostly drawn from actual practice, ...

In 1970, an astrophysicist named Koryo Miura conceived what would become one of the most well-known and well-studied folds in origami: the Miura-ori. The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is ...