A new single-string method lets flat designs deploy into complex 3D structures, with potential uses in modular space habitats ...

Disease risk is a potential cost of group living. Although modular organization is thought to reduce this cost in animal societies, empirical evidence toward this hypothesis has been conflicting. We ...

Refuting previous studies, the authors show by computer simulation that modular structures can arise during network growth via a simple model of gene duplication, without a natural selection ...

Many RNA-binding proteins have a modular structure and are composed of multiple repeats of a few small domains. By arranging the domains in various ways, these proteins can satisfy the diverse ...

A new study compares the development of the egg laying organ in two species of nematodes; with its results providing support for the theory of developmental systems drift. This theory maintains that, ...

A cache of fossils recently unearthed in northeastern Newfoundland reveals that some of Earth’s earliest large organisms had modular body plans whose main architectural element was a branching, ...

Although modular construction was once a cheap solution for properties in lower-priced areas, some of the largest construction companies have begun to focus on modular and prefab builds, according to ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- A seven-floor structure in uptown Manhattan has been billed as the first multistory, modular-built apartment building to open in New York City – widely called the nation's ...