The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.

Woven combination architecture box-beams For constructions requiring structural members to withstand relatively high impact and torsional resistance, Biteam from Sweden has developed a set of woven ...

Long a relic of an aviation vision that never came to fruition, Kansas City International Airport is joining the single-terminal world in a big way. Twenty-five 135-ft-long, 80,000-lb steel box beams ...