World's Largest Fusion Reactor is About to Switch On
If “The Stellarator” sounds like an energy source of comic book legend to you, you’re not that far off.
The Last-Ditch Fertilisation Method For Infertile Men Just Got More Reliable
For the past 25 years, men have had the option of injecting a single sperm cell directly into an egg. But that method still left some sterile men out in the cold. That might have changed, though.
This time-lapse video makes the US Coast Guard's new ship look ever so elegant. Read More >>
It Was Inevitable: Someone Taught a Neural Network To Talk With Romance Novels
Computer scientists studying machine learning have trained artificial intelligence using human knowledge of the, uh, carnal variety.
A Chinese Chef's Knife is Really Impressive
For a big hunk of metal that looks at home in a butcher, the cleaver can actually handle precise tasks as well.
This Classic Thought Experiment Will Make You Question Your True Intentions
It's called the Knobe Effect. It makes us think hard about what we’re saying when we say someone did something “intentionally.”
These Drones Are Like Floating Lego Bricks
Ever wish your Lego could fly? Someone invented the next best thing—BitDrones.
Ready your passports, these 4K videos of Japan will have you heading for the next plane to Tokyo. Read More >>
Think Cat Pics Are Worthless? This One Sold for Nearly £600,000
You’re looking at “My Wife’s Lovers,” a painting done by Carl Kahler in 1891. It represents forty-two felines of an eccentric California millionaire, and it sold for $826,000/£548,856.
Watch This Giant Shredding Machine Chomp Down and Swallow Cars
Car, meet giant shredder machine. Giant shredder machine, meet car. Oh. Dammit.
Pioneering Gene-Editing Therapy Reverses Cancer in Baby Girl
A one-year-old girl diagnosed with incurable aggressive leukaemia is now in remission after receiving “designer cells” from a donor.
Samsung Galaxy View Review: I Love This Magical Slab of Content
I love movies. I watch them on my phone, my tabet, and I even watch them on my laptop when there’s an actual television just a few feet away. This is why the Samsung Galaxy View feels so terribly intriguing.
A design project is taking the influence of code on architecture to generate building plans designed by software, and the results are oddly human. Read More >>
Your Forearm Could Soon Morph Into an Augmented Reality Keyboard
Has texting worn your thumbs to the nub? Help is on the way.
The Flight of a U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane From Beginning to End
Getting inside the cockpit and seeing the flight of a U-2 spy plane is so damn cool. Not only because it’s such a gorgeous looking plane.
Sorry, Alien Hunters: No Signs of Life From KIC 8462852
Some people worked themselves into a frenzy over the possibility of spotting an alien megastructure a few weeks back, but so far nobody's found any credence to this wild idea.
