What if electricity and magnetism, usually considered as separate or even competing forces in materials, could actually work ...

Some time ago, [Trammell Hudson] took a shot at creating a tool that unfolds 3D models in STL format and outputs a color-coded 2D pattern that can be cut out using a laser cutter. With a little ...

The researchers “stacked” two 2D optical lattices by interfering two light beams. Before interfering, one beam was intercepted with two prepatterned masks that were rotated with respect to one another ...

This brain teaser is an autostereogram, which describes “two-dimensional (2D) images with repeating patterns that hide an underlying three-dimensional (3D) image.” ...

EPFL researchers have developed a new high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. The new technology allows the researchers to… ...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method for having 2D patterns made of plastic self-assemble into 3D objects using a heat lamp and printer ink.