Watch a Robot Tamer Control Industrial Machines With Simple Gestures
As we bring industrial robots into unpredictable, interactive environments, we’re going to need better ways to communicate with them.
As we bring industrial robots into unpredictable, interactive environments, we’re going to need better ways to communicate with them.
Astronauts are quickly throwing together a plan for an unscheduled spacewalk to find out what happened to jam up their external transporter cart.
You might say Ken Libbrecht is into snowflakes. That would explain why he's got a high-tech snowflake machine, which he uses to grow dazzling designer flakes of all shapes and sizes. Read More >>
There were an alarming number of science scandals in 2015, from fabricated data to sexual harassment. Here are our picks for the worst of the worst.
Using computers, scientists have finally been able to simulate the plesiosaur swimming technique, and it’s remarkably similar to how penguins do it.
Black holes don’t emit light, but they still shine. Until they get big enough, that is.
Here's Kelly Slater surfing what is clearly the most perfect, never-ending man-made wave. Read More >>
Japan re-opened its first nuclear reactors since Fukushima in August, and now they're preparing to guard them against terrorist attacks too.
Cassini has already collected samples to determine if Enceladus’ seawater might be habitable—but we still had some unfinished business with this tiny Saturnian satellite.
The informally-named Holuhraun volcano in Iceland now formally bears the same name, making fans of naming it after dragons, witches, or internet service providers sob furiously.
The first images of Venus from its solitary, tardy orbiter are already revealing new secrets about its cloud dynamics. Read More >>
It should stop us from having to deal with gritted roads that are a slippery mess.
And what scientists found has some serious implications for our most basic understanding of black holes.
“Tour the White House in virtual reality.” That sounds unbelievably cool, but maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s really not that exciting.
People that get to do the same thing for a living as they did when they were a child are lucky. Especially if it also includes a spacesuit
It’s always a good day when you get your stolen, £154,393 Tyrannosaurus skull back.
