Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

An unusual protein structure known as a 'rippled beta sheet,' first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the laboratory and characterized in detail using x-ray crystallography. The new findings ...

Launching large, rigid satellite dishes into orbit is an expensive and energy-hungry task. But what if those massive structures could start out flat—and then unfold or “grow” into their curved shapes ...