Watch Carbon Nanotubes Assemble Themselves Using Force Fields
Rice University researchers have made an enormous breakthrough using carbon nanotubes: they’ve built tiny, microscopic structures that can automatically assemble themselves into different shapes. We know it’s science, but it looks like art.

April 17, 2016 at 05:20PM
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A passenger plane may have collided with a drone for the first time
Metropolitan Police in London are investigating a possible midair collision between a passenger jet on approach to Heathrow Airport in London and a drone. It would be the first time that an airplane from a major airline has actually collided with a drone.

April 17, 2016 at 04:54PM
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Can satellites help save the world’s rainforests?
Rainforests are our global lungs, yet we’ve continued to destroy them. Better satellites can help us understand how and why—and hopefully stop the damage.

April 17, 2016 at 03:55PM
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Why We Know Whether a Swallow Is Frightened in a Storm [Excerpt]
Intelligent technology is rapidly approaching the point where wild animals can start pinging us, and we’re able to identify them as unique individuals with their own backstory.

April 17, 2016 at 12:39PM
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How Much Would Darth Vader’s Suit Cost To Build?
Ignoring the fact that you’d have to melt off all your flesh in a volcano first, of course.

April 17, 2016 at 11:22AM
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Is online shopping better for the environment than going to the store?
The Internet often saves a trip to the store. But what’s the rise in online shopping doing to the environment?

April 17, 2016 at 11:22AM
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Why the iPhone sometimes feels stuck in the past
It is a story of complaints and gripes, yes, but it is also a story about why Apple’s philosophy about how it thinks the “future of computing” should work keeps making the mistakes of the past. It’s not just process, it’s layers and layers of politics.

April 16, 2016 at 11:54PM
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VR Face has got to die already
What started as a documentation of faces in awe seems to have swerved more towards comedy, not least of all because, almost four years later, VR still comes up short in the public eye in terms of delivering on its promise.

April 16, 2016 at 09:15PM
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URL shorteners expose your documents and driving routes
Two researchers analysed millions of bit.ly generated short URLs and found that randomly generating the addresses allowed them to access the content behind them.

April 16, 2016 at 05:09PM
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You Can Guess What Happens When You Put Your iPhone In An Orb Of Expanding Foam
Expanding foam is pretty fun to watch. It’s even more fun when there’s an iPhone inside.

April 15, 2016 at 04:12PM
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