Learn about properties of 3D shapes with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

To answer that question, the team turned to an open-access research platform called AlphaFold, which predicts the 3D shape of a protein based on its amino-acid sequence.

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

But 3D shapes with curves can fill space, too—although the ready examples are only slightly bent and have obvious corners. Tellingly, the known examples all emerged from questions about nature ...

Architected materials – like this 3D lattice – get their properties not from what they are made out of, but from their structure. Ryan Lee, CC BY-ND. The new material is a type of architected ...