Mutable surface textures are important in controlling unwanted animals growing on … Read More → "3D-printed materials that change texture on demand"

If you’ve ever felt like you wanted to take up a musical instrument but couldn’t make up your mind what to play, Aidin Ardjomandi’s new invention might be of interest. The Iranian designer has just won the A’ Design bronze award in the musical instrument category for his brand new instrument Celloridoo.

As the name suggests, the instrument is a combination of a bowed instrument … Read More → "Iranian designer wins award by inventing brand new musical instrument – the Celloridoo"

What do you do if you live off the coast of Panama and you need to get the family around? If you’re Jaimie Mantzel, you build yourself a solar powered boat… or three.

Mantzel had previously built a 16′ catamaran sailboat with a plywood and fiberglass hull, which he later converted to a solar powered motorboat. Taking what he learned, Mantzel built a larger pontoon boat with many clever innovations. He also started on a … Read More → "When the family car is a solar-powered boat"

In addition to the collections of ancient Mediterranean art, 19th century Danish and French sculptures, and special exhibitions, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen has an unusual display case. Behind the glass are 100 plaster noses lined up in precise rows, forming what the museum refers to as the Nasothek.

The noses weren’t crafted for this purpose, though the Nasothek display could blend in at a modern … Read More → "A collection of noses is on display in Copenhagen"

It beggars belief, but it appears that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is actually going to be built. The first test track will only be five miles long, and it won’t operate at the supersonic speeds that Musk envisioned, but still, it’s coming—Musk’s “cross between a Concorde, railgun, and an air hockey table” really is coming.

Back in January, Elon Musk said that he planned … Read More → "Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is actually being built in California next year"

Honestly, kids these days.

They’ve got nothing better to do than get on their high horses and think they know it all.

Just because they can make a smartphone do things adults can’t, just because their fingers are still small enough to work an Apple Watch, they think they’re smarter than we are.

Well, have they ever discovered a planet?

Read More → "Teen discovers new planet 1,000 light years away"

People really do not like discussing moisture. A Buzzfeed post called “Why Moist Is The Worst Word Ever” received more than 4 million views; when The New Yorker asked readers to nominate a word to scrub from the English language in 2012, the overwhelming consensus was to ditch moist. The seemingly ordinary adjective inspires an excessive outpouring of ire. Why?

< … Read More → "The science behind why people hate the word ‘Moist’"

As much as they may try, some people just don’t “get” art. Understanding pieces by even the most famous masters of the genre elude them. Now computer scientists from Rutgers University are taking the guesswork out of understanding art by using an algorithm to determine the most creative paintings, according to a study recently published in the arxiv.

The study authors define creativity as “the originality of the product … Read More → "These are the most creative paintings of all time, according to a computer"

A decade in the making, but they’ve finally cracked it. You might not naturally pair computers with water—at least not in a positive way—but researchers at Stanford University have managed to create a computer that works using water droplets.

Normally, your computer transfers data around a circuit board using electrons. But scientists have managed to turn this on its head by making a computer in which … Read More → "Researchers create a computer that works by using water"

that is, after the item had passed through the first but before it struck the back wall. That task seemed insurmountable. But now that experiment has been tried out, and the results are rather mind-boggling.

The team in Australia turned thought experiment into lab reality by using lasers. Their subject matter was not a photon but a … Read More → "Physicists demonstrate how time can seem to run backward, and the future can affect the past"