Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:New research indicates some of the architecture’s oldest and most reliable designs can be built even better thanks to insect inspiration. According to an international team , some of the strongest and most reliable domed ceilings can be built by more closely imitating the semi-irregular geometric patterns seen in dragonfly wings.
When faced with asymmetric stress, however, the cross vault rose to the top, followed by the optimized options. Most strikingly, though, was the fact that both the coffered and Voronoi iterations best handled the switch between centralized and asymmetric loads.
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