A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding ...

While doing research on the web for this column, I came across a professor’s handout on design fundamentals. The lead paragraph talks about applying basic design principles every time you design a ...

How do you build a brain? Scientists how present a surprising answer, reporting their discovery of a remarkably simple organizational structure in the brains of humans and other primates. Employing ...

April 5, 2012 — A new brain imaging study shows that the human brain is wired in a simple and orderly 3-dimensional grid, akin to a checkerboard, with no diagonal paths. "Far from being just a tangle ...