A Nigerian-American engineer and Harvard graduate, Yinka Ogunbiyi, has developed HaloBraid, described as the world’s first braid-assist robot designed to ease the physical strain on hairstylists and ...

In the 1930s Werner Burau, a German mathematician, introduced a twisted geometrical mystery that would stand for nearly a century. Previously, mathematicians had shown that knots could be reformulated ...

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BAD HAIR DAY: Lemaire landed in hot water in China over the weekend following the release of a campaign for its first olfactory collection. Online controversy sparked by several editorial images, one ...

DUTY ROPE, A CAREFUL WEAVING OF ENGINEERING AND ART. THE ART OF WHAT WE’RE DOING IS PULLING TOGETHER THE RIGHT MATERIALS AND THEN OPTIMIZING THE WAY WE TWIST IT, RESULTING IN A STRENGTH THAT HAS KEPT ...

Braids have a long, rich, storied history that intertwines both practicality and cultural status. The French braid, in particular, dates back thousands of years to North Africa and ancient Greece, but ...

Necrobotics is a field of engineering that builds robots out of a mix of synthetic materials and animal body parts. It has produced micro-grippers with pneumatically operated legs taken from dead ...

The 'Becoming' author didn't want her hair to be a "distraction" during her time in the White House. Michelle Obama shared the unexpected, yet powerful, backstory behind her new signature hairstyle.

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (Ph.D. '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the ...

Braided cables have a cool, woven exterior made from materials like nylon, wrapping around the standard cable core. This gives them an instant "premium" vibe compared to the usual smooth, flexible ...