The Science of Artificial Testicles
Someday, in the not-so-distant future, we won’t need sex or even sperm to make babies. All it will take to reproduce is a swab of the cheek, or a scrape of the skin, or some other way to collect a live cell carrying your DNA, and voila: a bouncing baby, without all that mess and fuss.
April 7, 2015 at 01:24AM
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Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries
Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that’s fast-charging, long-lasting and inexpensive. Researchers say the new technology offers a safe alternative to many commercial batteries in wide use today.
April 6, 2015 at 10:09PM
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Twitter Is Finally Fixing The Quote Tweet Button
In an update that’s rolling out today, the button now embeds the tweet instead of just quoting it as text.
April 6, 2015 at 09:01PM
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Bitcoin Foundation is “effectively bankrupt,” board member says
One of the newly-elected board members of the Bitcoin Foundation — the 2.5-year-old organization that was meant to bring order to the famously open-source and freewheeling cryptocurrency — has declared the group “effectively bankrupt.”
April 6, 2015 at 08:01PM
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Apple Acquired Search Startup Ottocat To Power The ‘Explore’ Tab In The App Store
Apple has slowly been making changes to improve how people search and navigate the App Store. Part of the way it does that is via small acquisitions — some of which stay under the radar for years.
April 6, 2015 at 08:01PM
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This Is The Gigantic Machine That Renews Railroad Tracks
It might looks like a regular train, but each of the cars on this Plasser & Theurer RU 800 have a specific purpose. As the whole machine passes, the existing track below is removed and replaced.
April 6, 2015 at 08:03PM
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Holograms Will Let Doctors See 3-D Views of Our Insides
The world of biomedical imaging is flat. And it needs to catch up with the 21st century and start seeing the world as a round, three-dimensional place. The answer? Give it the ol’ “Tupac at Coachella 2012” treatment and make holograms, of course!
April 6, 2015 at 05:46PM
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Everything new we just learned about the Apple Watch
As launch day for the Apple Watch creeps ever closer, the Cupertino company seems to think its new wearable will be so revolutionary that we won’t know how to use it right away. To remove any confusion before your 15-minute in-store appointment, Apple is releasing a series of “guided video tours” that show off how the Apple Watch will work.
April 6, 2015 at 04:42PM
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Textspeak is Streamlining Language. Not Ruining it.
It turns out that people have been complaining about language being “ruined” for as long as they’ve been writing and speaking.
April 6, 2015 at 02:38PM
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In praise of the mechanical keyboard
Mechanical keyboards are loud, expensive, clunky, and cool as hell.
April 6, 2015 at 02:38PM
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