Drawing inspiration from how plants change shape in response to environmental stimuli, Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have ...

A Shape is a graphical representation of an object. In Microsoft Office programs, such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and OneNote, people can use shapes to form an image. They also contain ...

If you want to use PowerPoint's capabilities to illustrate how two or more data points compare in magnitude, it might be appropriate in some cases to use proportional shapes to make the comparison.

Change the layout of the slide to blank. Go to the Shapes button on the Home tab and choose a circle from the menu. Draw the circle onto the slide. On the Shape Format tab, you can choose a rectangle ...

In a new Harvard University-designed system, however, that buckling action allows flat-packed objects to be twisted into useful three-dimensional forms. Most existing "buckling-induced deployable ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a foldable, incredibly thin invisibility cloak that can wrap around microscopic objects of any shape and make them undetectable in the visible spectrum. In its ...