Using simple blocks with shapes like cubes or hourglasses, researchers have found ways to construct strong panels with no fasteners securing most of the blocks. Such constructions remain intact even ...

Will Shortz provides the materials for three intricate structures. By Caitlin Lovinger BUILDING BLOCKS — This puzzle is an interesting and unusual challenge to a solver’s vocabulary and powers of ...

New building blocks can interlock without cement, and stay strong when damaged. Large versions of the bricks could give flexible foundations to buildings in earthquake zones, says one of the team that ...

Some documentaries are filled with talking heads who explain things. Others show evidence and lay out an argument. But the new movie "Architecton" takes a different approach. It is a nearly wordless ...

Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them. Problems in ...