This Robotic Bee Can Swim (Unlike it's Real-Life Counterpart)
If you’ve ever had a bee land in your beer, you’ll know they can’t swim. If it were one of Harvard’s Robobees, however, it would be a different matter altogether.
If you’ve ever had a bee land in your beer, you’ll know they can’t swim. If it were one of Harvard’s Robobees, however, it would be a different matter altogether.
Researchers have created the world’s first quantum logic gate in silicon, and it's exciting.
Something to... impress your mates with.
Saturn and its moon Titan are a moody looking pair in this image. But despite the fact they look similar in a picture like this, they’re actually far from alike. Read more >>
Zuckerberg to the rescue.
Engineers hope that the new standard will help push chip design even further.
Rubbing together AA batteries to get the remote going again – now backed by science.
This was astronaut Scott Kelly’s view from the International Space Station before he went to bed last night. Those primary colours are really quite incredible. [Scott Kelly]
Understanding how the brain works is important, but going hands-on to test drugs or other treatments can be difficult. Which is why a team from Brown University has created these miniature ball-shaped brains for use in the lab. Read more >>
Well hello there, overkill.
Professor Brian Kernighan is computing heavyweight and here he talks with one of the UK’s foremost computer science professors, Professor David Brailsford. Time to geek out.
New research reckons humans are pretty shoddy at detecting doctored images.
It looks like a vivid red carnation, but this flower is actually the result of mixing simple organic chemicals. It measures just 10 microns across and to three hours to come into creation. Read more >>
Could this be the start of Tellygate?
Imagine electrical circuits that you could print off and use for a few hours before they melted away and stop functioning or changed their function.
The machine produces shapes solutions with the same consistency as hand sanitiser.
