Architecture Studio, a new set from Lego, comes with 1,210 white and translucent bricks. More notable is what it lacks: namely, instructions for any single thing you’re supposed to build with it. Instead, the kit is accompanied by a thick, 277-page guidebook filled with architectural concepts and building techniques alongside real world insights from prominent architecture studios from around the globe. In other words, this box o’ bricks is a … Read More → "A Lego set for budding architects, with no instructions"

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By looking through the catalog of known asteroids, aerospace engineers have identified 12 candidates that we could reach out and capture using existing rocket technology.

Long overlooked as mere rocky chunks leftover from the formation of the solar system, asteroids have recently gotten a lot more scrutiny. A couple years ago, researchers outlined a seemingly daring planto lasso and bring an asteroid back to Earth. … Read More → "Engineers identify 12 asteroids we could capture with existing rocket technology"

This is the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit developed by Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta. It harnesses the carbon dioxide you exhale to grow a colony of algae that you can later eat. Plus you look like a supervillain.

The suit debuted … Read More → "Suit grows edible algae from your breath"

Tea pots, vases, and other ceramics appear to melt into puddles of patterned goo in the 2012 sculpture series “Nomad Patterns” by artist Livia Marin.
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Artist Rachel Evans makes gorgeous poster-art with a spirograph, and has an especially sweet line of world-maps made using the technique, which she sells as posters.
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This isn’t some inhumane magic trick. The rabbits are part of a genetic manipulation experiment, one that the researchers hope will shed some light on hereditary diseases and hopefully lead the way to producing drugs to help cure them. The embryos of the two green rabbits were injected with a fluorescent … Read More → "These glow in the dark rabbits will help cure diseases one day"

NASA says it will be ready to launch a zero-G-ready 3D printer into space in June 2014, in time for the fifth SpaceX resupply mission to the ISS. The agency has prepared a video, complete with upbeat muzak, that details not only how astronauts will be able to print objects on demand, but why they might need … Read More → "Here’s how NASA will use a 3D printer on the ISS (video)"

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Cecilia Valentine’s “Fur Is Alive” series includes spaces for living animals. She showed the three pieces in her series at the graduation show for the Rietveld Academy, a design school in Amsterdam.
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