It is not pleasant inside the core of Jupiter—or any other planet for that matter. However, gaining a better understanding of what’s going on in there is key for understanding how these planets form. That’s why a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently used diamonds and lasers to recreate those very conditions.

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Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine believes that the relationship between food and packaging should be symbiotic, with containers surviving only as long as their contents. In a vividly colored series entitled “This Too Shall Pass,” the company showcases three items, each of which looks more like an ornament than a household product.

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Over the past few years scientists and researchers have made some inroads in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, but as yet no definitive cure has been found. In the latest promising development, a team of Canadian researchers has identified a genetic variant that can delay the onset of the disease by up to four years.
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Inspired by a childhood love of dinosaurs, [Robert] set out to build a robotic dinosaur from the Ceratopsian family. After about a year of design, building, and coding, he has sent us a video of Roboceratops moving around gracefully, chomping a rope, and smoothly wagging his tail.

Roboceratops is made from laser-cut MDF and aluminium bars in the legs. That’s not cookie dough on those legs, it’s … Read More → "Roboceratops: A robot dinosaur that defies extinction"

Laser cut and engraved from a solid piece of smoked acrylic, the Deal With It Sunglasses are perfect for the total boss whose ethos is best summed up by an 8-bit GIF that’s been lingering on the internet since 2010. The shades don’t have hinges, because like the will of the major bro who wears them, these sunglasses never bend.< … Read More → "8-bit pixel sunglasses implore everyone around you to deal with it"

Wearing a hoodie and listening to music with large headphones are two things that do not always go together, but one company believes it’s solved that problem. San Francisco-based Betabrand has come up with a new hooded jacket that uses “acoustically transparent fabric” to let sound pass through unabated, meaning you can show off your cans to the world and actually hear them too.
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Four fingers and a thumb on each hand is pretty useful. Humans have gone from caves to sprawling cities in part because of our dexterous digits.

But researchers at MIT think we could do even better if we had an upgrade. They have developed a glove with two extra robotic fingers that respond intelligently to your movements, allowing you to perform two-handed tasks with just one robot-enhanced hand.

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Dr. McLurkin, a professor of computer science, runs the Multi-Robot Systems Lab at Rice University. He and his team research distributed algorithms for multi-robot systems. In other words, using the combined abilities of several rather simple robots to perform complex tasks. Dr. McLurkin has spent the past three years developing Robot Swarm, an exhibit of his hive-mind bots set to debut at Manhattan’s Museum of Mathematics in early 2015.
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