A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

Miles Wu, 14, said an origami fold could hold over 10,000 times its own weight, the equivalent of a NYC taxi cab holding over ...
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Apparent Weight on the Surface of the Earth Explained Simply

Understand what apparent weight really means and why it changes depending on motion, acceleration, and forces acting on your ...
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This New Shape-Changing Polymer Can Lift 1,000 Times Its Own Weight

All materials react to heat in some way. But this new shape-changing polymer reacts to temperatures as small as the touch of human skin to contract—in the process lifting as much as 1,000 times its ...
Physics World

Nanosheet actuators lift 150 times their own weight

Transforming electricity into movement is a challenge at the root of technologies from robotics to drug delivery, and is performed by a device called an actuator. Researchers in the US have presented ...