“The Art of 3D Print Failure,” a Flickr group that started in late 2011, chronicles the most beautiful mistakes to come out of 3D printers, from headless figurines to tangled loops of ABS plastic.
Despite its name, the group isn’t just about showing … Read More → "When 3D printers fail, the results are beautiful"
In a tomb near Siirt in southeast Turkey, archaeologists believe they may have just found the oldest gaming tokens ever after dating them back to a whopping 5,000 years young.
The extensive set is made up of 49 small, carved stones that wouldn’t be entirely dissimilar to chess pieces if not for the fact that, in addition … Read More → "Archaeologists just found the oldest board game tokens ever"
New mammal species are trickier to find, but recent research published in ZooKeystakes note of a newly discovered critter — the olinguito.
Formally called Bassaricyon neblina, the olinguito is a carnivorous relative to the raccoon that’s been eluding the scientific community for ages. These tree-dwelling guys live in Ecuador and Columbia and tend to be most active at night when fog is especially … Read More → "New mammal species discovered in western hemisphere for the first time in 35 years and it’s adorable"
Locked-in syndrome, where a person with a fully functioning brain is trapped in a completely paralyzed body, is one of neurology’s most vexing (and terrifying) problems. Physicians and researchers have struggled for years to establish an objective way to determine level of consciousness that doesn’t require patients to express themselves through some form of muscle movement. New research could hold the solution, with a technique that directly quantifies brain … Read More → "Scientists finally have a way to quantify consciousness, using magnets"
As part of a Department of Transportation study, around 3,000 gossipy vehicles have been tooling around Ann Arbor, Michigan, sending out messages announcing where they are. The goal of the $25 million project, which just wrapped, is to evaluate systems that broadcast data packets called Basic Safety Messages. Around 300 of those autos will also receive messages that tell them the speed and location of every other car within roughly 1,000 feet— … Read More → "To prevent crashes, your future car will chat with other vehicles"
You know about herbivores and carnivores, and perhaps you know about omnivore, insectivores, frugivore (for example, fruit bats). But do you know about ossivores like the species of worm that specializes in eating whale bones?
Meet the bone-eating worms, which munch on the stripped skeleton of dead whales by secreting acids to dissolve their way to a good meal. We told you about these Osedax& … Read More → "New species of bone-eating worm discovered in the Antarctic"
Every morning, we wake up knowing that the writers of the ’60s, who promised us pill-sized meals and flying cars by the year 2000, had lied to us. But now, a New Zealand-based avionics company has been granted permission to start manned test-flights on the ultimate piece of retro-futurism: the jetpack. The Martin Jetpack< … Read More → "Future finally arrives as Martin Jetpack approved for manned test-flights"
Manmade clouds are nothing new, but there’s something particularly stunning about this collaboration between Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar — a combination of minimalist architecture (that brings to mind Apple’s cube-shaped store in NYC) and ethereal floating clouds. According toDezeen, the cloud is formed from cooled and heated air being pumped into … Read More → "‘Cloudscapes’ art installation puts the viewer inside a man-made weather pattern"
