Some human-made materials can mimic plants' slow but steady reaction to light energy, usually triggered by lasers or focused ambient light. New research has discovered a way to speed up this effect ...

Using folded DNA to precisely place glowing molecules within microscopic light resonators, researchers at Caltech have created one of the world's smallest reproductions of Vincent van Gogh's The ...

This holiday season, Manitowoc Public Library’s Teen Services department is getting some inspiration from the other side of the globe! Our Teen Grab & Go Kits are taking on some art styles of Asia ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Art and nature will converge at "Origami in the Garden." WPTV journalist T.A. Walker shined a light on the extraordinary exhibition of 20 larger-than-life sculptures inspired ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

If you watch the leaves of a plant long enough, you may see them shift and turn toward the sunlight through the day. It happens slowly, but surely. Some man-made materials can mimic this slow but ...