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An animal rights group is taking to the courts in an effort to seek personhood for a chimpanzee. In a lawsuit filed today in Fulton County, New York, the Nonhuman Rights Project demands that “Tommy” — a privately owned chimp who lives on a reindeer farm in the state — be freed from his owners and moved to a … Read More → "New lawsuit seeks ‘legal personhood’ for a chimpanzee"

Created by Spanish fashion designer Manel Torres, Fabrican is a sprayable wearable fabric inspired by Silly String, but instead of destroying your clothing it creates a layer of fibers that winds up looking like a less racy form of body painting. Here’s how it works:

The science of the process involves the creation of a liquid suspension which is then applied using a spray gun or aerosol canister. The resulting sprayed fabric has& … Read More → "A spray on fabric in a can"

These maps compiled by advertising firm Marchex show which states are the most and least likely to curse and to be courteous. The company analyzed phone calls from the past year, and found that Ohio is the most foul-mouthed state, while residents of Washington are the least likely to curse. According to their findings, South Carolina is the most polite, while Wisconsonites are the rudest.
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It’s been three years since a massive earthquake ravaged Haiti, and the island nation is still recovering. One large and pervasive obstacle is a lack of supplies—specifically, medical supplies. So iLab Haiti is exploring how 3D printing can be used to just make them on the spot. . . 

Right now, iLab is still in the testing period with its 3D-printed supplies. … Read More → "An aid group is 3D-printing medical supplies in Haiti"

Korean artist Do Ho Suh has created a life-size fabric replica of a three-story American house, inside of which is a replica of a traditional Korean home, for his large scale installation “Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home.” Each replica represents a home Suh has lived in—the 39-foot-tall American house was Suh’ … Read More → "Life-size fabric model of a house within a house"

Amazon made headlines Sunday night when it announced it was working on small drones that could someday deliver customers packages in half an hour or less. But the e-commerce giant isn’t the only company researching how to harness the potential of small unmanned aircraft: The Verge has learned that the world’s largest parcel … Read More → "UPS researching its own delivery drones to compete with Amazon’s Prime Air"

[Jennifer Lewis] is a Harvard Materials Scientist, and she’s recently come up with a type of Lithium Ion “Ink” that allows her to 3D print battery cells.

You might remember our recent 3D Printering article on Pastestruders, but this research certainly takes it up a few notches. The ink is made up of nano-particles of Lithium Titanium in a solution of de-ionized water … Read More → "3D Printing Lithium Ion Cells"

It’s one of the most basic rules of photography: to get a picture, you need light. But a new MIT project has built a camera that flies in the face of that logic. The project’s new stealth camera can assemble 3D images from one photon at a time, working in near-total darkness. In the images above, each pixel corresponds to a … Read More → "Experimental camera captures 3D images in near-total darkness"

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