Email Print Share

Featured Image

Image
June 11, 2021


Tensegrity metamaterials

These novel tensegrity -- a design principle where isolated rigid bars are integrated into a flexible mesh of tethers to produce very lightweight, self-tensioning truss structures -- metamaterials employ isolated compressive loop elements exclusively connected through a continuous network of tensile members (highlighted in magenta).


Show 30 items per page.
Image

Tensegrity metamaterials
Image

Early primate species Purgatorius mckeeveri
Image

Moment radioactive nuclei were incorporated into solids that would become meteorites
Audio

Coral-lations!
Image

Colorful conductor
Image

Rat brain showing three specific lipids
Image

Maglab's largest and highest-powered superconducting magnets
Image

Bitter disk art
Image

Hubble ultraviolet image of Jupiter
Image

Hubble visible-light image of Jupiter
Image

Star trails over Gemini North Telescope
Image

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Image

Green Bank Telescope in summer
Audio

CARBIVORE!
Audio

Glowing Pains!
Audio

Less is More!
Image

Ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses
Video

Ep. 332: Quantum Crystals- Creating new families of electronic materials!
Audio

The Ties that Bind
Audio

The Breakup
Image

Ions and electrons in various space plasmas
Image

Jellyfish produce two vortex rings when they swim
Image

Complex carbon-based molecules found at Green Bank
Audio

Ware & Tare
Image

Transition from glassy sponge skeleton to welded rebar-based lattice
Image

Skeleton of marine sponge Euplectella aspergillum
Image

Quasar J0313–1806 as it appeared only 670 million years after the Big Bang
Image

Cassiopeia A with layering showing filamentary structures of dust and gas
Image

Large tissue sections imaged using microscope with AI technology
Image

Colobine monkey Mesopithecus pentelicus in late Miocene tropical forest in China
Show 30 items per page.