The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

Astronomers came to the surprising conclusion that there are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought.

The results have clear implications for galaxy formation, and also helps shed light on an ancient astronomical paradox – why is the sky dark at … Read More → "Hubble reveals observable universe contains 10 times more galaxies than previously thought"

Gone are the days when you can gossip freely about your friends in the arachnid world. They don’t have ears and were thought to mostly interpret the world around them through sight and touch, but scientists have now discovered that spiders possess the ability to hear over relatively long distances, a sense that appears finely tuned to recognizing the sounds of incoming enemies.
via Read More → "Spiders have been listening in on us this whole time"

Seattle-based designer Mark Wheeler embedded contact microphones on ping pong paddles, hid an Arduino in a retro radio, and designed an app, all to get a ping pong table to play music to the rhythm of a game. The idea of Ping Pong FM, as Wheeler and his team call it, is to play fast enough that the … Read More → "This ping pong table plays music to the rhythm of your game"

Sometimes, a person accomplishes something so great, so revolutionary, that all they can do is smile as wide as humanly possible and show off the thing. via PopSci. Continue reading.

… Read More → "This gun makes and fires paper airplanes"

How would you go about sculpting a garden in the 21st century? One answer, perhaps predictably, is with a 3D printer. Gone are the days of the Chia pet. Thanks to a team of students out of University of Maribor in Slovenia, today we can 3D print living sculptures of our own design.

PrintGREEN traces its … Read More → "3D print your garden"

The new plastic polymer £5 notes are bonkers. They can’t be crumpled, are extremely hard (though not impossible) to burn, and some wonky stuff happens if you shine a laser through the queen’s face. By far the strangest revelation about this Money Of The Future? The £5 can be used as a rudimentary record player needle.
via Gizmodo

… Read More → "People are using Britain’s new plastic money to play vinyl records"

As many a child has realized during a fancy dinner, crystal glasses make a ringing noise when a bored diner runs a wet finger around the rim. Similarly to blowing into a beer bottle, the act usually only produces one note, but with a little strategy, you can make a whole song. These special crystal … Read More → "Play tunes on these specially marked wine glasses"

We all know that even if someone believes something, that thing may not in fact be true. This ability, to realize that other people are capable of holding erroneous beliefs, was once thought to be unique to humans. According to new research, however, some of our fellow apes may likewise be aware that what people think doesn’t necessarily mesh with reality.

Read More → "Apes grasp the concept of people being wrong"

One of the coolest wearable art pieces at World Maker Faire 2016 was Teresa Lamb’s Cyberknitics. Teresa built a harness with embedded sensors and electronics that tracks the motion of her hands as she knits and translates that motion into music. Because knitting is a rhythmic process, you can hear that rhythm in the resulting sound that’s generated.
via < … Read More → "The cybernetics of knitting"

Millions of years ago, one of the largest animals to ever exist strutted around what is now the Gobi desert. And it left behind some massive footprints.

The Gobi desert has long been a popular place for paleontologists to search for dinosaur bones. Since the 1920s, scientists have trekked to the central Asian desert to scrounge up … Read More → "Researchers just discovered one of the largest dinosaur footprints ever found"