Ink is expensive as hell, so it makes sense that researchers are looking for inkless alternatives. This image, for instance, was made by punching thousands of tiny holes into the paper. Read More >>
Imagine setting an expiry date for your browser history, and knowing that in a month it will all be automatically corrupted and destroyed.
Research involving human subjects is littered with a history of scandal that often shapes people’s views of the ethics of research. From Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine, to the research in Nazi concentration camps
A quick YouTube search reveals countless Super Mario World speedruns by some of the game’s most skilled players. MarI/O can keep up with the best of them, even though it’s actually just a piece of advanced learning software made up of virtual neural networks. See more >>
With the potential to revolutionise everything from busking to children’s parties, a researcher named Raffaello D’Andrea has built a simple sensor-less machine using four strategically placed paddles that are able to juggle four balls in the air with surprising accuracy. Read more >>
A commercial airliner with multiple engines can limp to a runway if one of them fails. But a small plane, driven by just a single propeller, is in more serious trouble when its engine stops. So researchers have created a tiny electric backup.
Grab your marshmallows, folks. Scientists have finally figured out the perfect way of building a fire, one that creates as much heat as possible. But it turns out their work may have been in vain.
Given Disney’s fondness for animatronic characters, it only makes sense that the company’s hard at work finding ways to make them even more lifelike. Now, it's researchers may have found a cheap solution to making artificial muscles using conductive sewing thread. Read More >>
Basic Wi-Fi hardware can count with a surprising level of accuracy.
Dunking your laptop in a bucket of water while it’s running is just about the worst thing you can do, but researchers developed a new type of processor that’s actually built around moving water drops, instead of electrons. Read more >>
The nine-tonne disc directs wind-flow directly to the blades.
For a long time, the only two things that have really separated humans from apes is our ability to make fire and and our propensity towards chips. Turns out that chimpanzees likely possess both these qualities as well.
It’s a boon for science. No word, however, on how much the seals like their new head accessories.
The tiny self-folding robot will destroy itself when it finishes its assigned job, It can even go through its entire circle of life without the need for cable tethers or wires of any kind. Read More >>
Humanity wouldn’t be where it is today if we didn’t learn how to work together, but robots have once again demonstrated that they’re much faster at adapting than us.
It's an attempt to make its theme parks even more magical
