From muscle atrophy to bone loss, astronauts face a number of health risks while in space. It's easy to understand why. The human body relies on Earth's gravity to work out muscles and support other ...

The ability for structures to change geometry in order to deliver a particular capability can be useful in a range of applications, including biomedical engineering, robotics, aerospace and civil ...

If you've ever opened an umbrella or set up a folding chair, you've used a deployable structure - an object that can transition from a compact state to an expanded one. You've probably noticed that ...

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied ...

Abstract: Deployable space structures are compacted and stowed during launch, and unfurled to their full dimensions once in space, enabling the large systems necessary to advance space science and ...

Sudarshan Krishnan, professor in architecture, has been developing deployable and moving structures that could broaden an architect’s knowledge of structures. The deployable structures Krishnan built ...

Director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, Col. Eric Felt, left, and Benjamin Urioste, a research engineer, prepare to break a satellite piñata, following the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space. AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue ...