Spiders Dosed With Graphene Can Spin Stronger Silk
Spider silk is one of the world’s strongest natural materials. Graphene is a super material with many amazing uses. So, oddly, scientists decided to combine the two.
Spider silk is one of the world’s strongest natural materials. Graphene is a super material with many amazing uses. So, oddly, scientists decided to combine the two.
A team of researchers has identified the most distant galaxy currently measured in the night sky. Galaxy EGS-zs8-1 is so far from our planet that we’re only now seeing light it emitted a staggering 13 billion years ago. Read More >>
If you can patent a black rectangle as phone, you can patent a smaller one as a watch.
Judges in the EU court have decided that the name of Microsoft’s video calling system, Skype, could easily be confused by the general public for the name of television broadcasting network, Sky.
Another 'massive security risk' has been found affecting Lenovo laptops. If you use Lenovo hardware with System Update 5.6.0.27 or earlier installed, then you need to update as soon as you can.
Everyone needs a hobby. For Lee Hsien Loon, that happens to be writing C++ Sudoku solvers and publishing them on the Internet.
Without this equation you would be waiting hours for your music to stream, or days for photos to load. Let us learn some more about Baron Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier's near-200-year-old mathematical triumph.
Last week, the Sun spat out a massive solar filament that extended the star’s visible hemisphere by almost half. This image of that huge lick of plasma was captured by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Read more >>
Reports in the New York Times suggest the new controller will be much bigger, opening up space for a touch interface.
You’ve probably gazed at the constellation of Cygnus on a starry night—it’s distinctive and easy to spot on in the Northern hemisphere. But this is the bit of it you can’t see. Read More >>
You might think the best way to fight ATM skimmers is to destroy them, but Californian police are leaving them right where they are. With an added bonus, of course.
Well would you look at that. The Curiosity rover seems to have a rock stuck in its wheel. Read More >>
German magazine Der Spiegel claims that the BND helped the NSA for over 10 years, eventually discontinuing the practice in 2013.
New images captured by researchers provide the first-ever detailed view of the dark central patches of sunspots—revealing with more detail than ever how they work.
This might look unlike most cockroaches you’ve ever seen—but that’s because it was probably quite a lot more aggressive than any you’ve seen.
Photographer Elizabeth Moss has decided to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the world’s high-end photograph retouching. In a series of time-lapse videos, she boils down hours of laborious retouching into mere seconds, and the results are pretty crazy. See more >>
