Robin Would Have Failed a Face Detection System Those folks hoping to don a face mask and become an incognito firm hand of ...

First Amphibious Insect Found in Hawaii The freshwater streams of Hawaii host a strange sort of insect: a caterpillar of the genus Hyposmocoma, ...

Make Water Flow Uphill With Lasers Water flows downhill, that’s just a fact. It flows downhill because gravity forces it to, and to ...

Jurassic Chicken Park Did anyone else watch Jurassic Park and think, man, this would just be so much cooler with chickens? No? Well, ...

People Really Love Their Roombas I can understand how someone might learn to love, say, a Cylon. They have genuine emotions and act ...

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Science is everywhere. Take a look around. Chances are everything you see and touch has been shaped, in some way, by science. Let’s ...

Let’s kick things off with the grindingly obvious: there’s always been a disparity between how real-life items behave and how they are portrayed ...

Despite the near daily advances made in science, the knowledge we have of the way our world works is staggeringly incomplete. We have ...

Imagine discovering that a secret tribe of Neolithic cavemen used electricity long before it became a cornerstone of civilization. That’s what playing Exile ...

Videogames have always been children of science. The earliest games were written on punch cards in university laboratories and played on enormous computer ...

How to Be Spider-Man, Walk on Walls Were you the kind of kid that encouraged spiders to bite you in hopes that they ...