When the World Watches the World Cup, What Does That Look Like?
A writer and a designer make art to find out, with the help of 2,000 friends.
Explore a Shipwreck, in Real Time
The Nautilus Project turns deep-sea treasure-hunting into live entertainment for the desk-bound.
Your Dinner Table: Soon to Be Cleared by Robots
Sympathy for machines' experience has led to a new way for them to interact with the world.
The Playable Virtual Dolphin Created to Help Stroke Patients Recover
The Kata Project is a bold experiment in motor control learning.
Meet the Cute, Wellies-Wearing, Wikipedia-Reading Robot That's Going to Hitchhike Across Canada
"The physical form looks like somebody has cobbled together odds and ends to make the robot, such as pool noodles, bucket, cake saver, garden gloves, Wellies, etc."
Ball, Disrupted: A Brief History of World Cup Innovation
The real stars of each match have evolved from pigs' bladders to lumps of rubber to aerodynamic, TV-friendly spheres.
The U.S. Army Says It Can Teleport Quantum Data Now, Too
This kind of tech has implications that extend beyond the battlefield.
A Second Life for Wasted Soda Bottles: High-Tech Roofing
Engineers have figured out how to turn plastic trash into a material that keeps rain and heat out while letting sunlight in.
Not Quite Tinder for Senior Citizens
Andrew Dowling is launching an app to solve the loneliness epidemic among older adults.
Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery by Simulating Cells
Virtual clinical trials would combine big data and computer simulation.
Your Next Shot Might Be Inspired by a Spider
A study of prey-catching arachnids sheds new light on the biomechanics of venom-injection.
The New Math of Subways
New software can take simple data and infer exactly what's going on across a transportation system.
A Breathalyzer That Can Diagnose Cancer
Breathprints can give doctors information that patients won't or can't offer.
For the First Time, We Have a Detailed Model of the Universe
And its rendering stretches almost all the way back to the Big Bang.
An Acid-Spewing ATM That Protects Itself From Thieves
How scientists turned a beetle's unusual defense mechanism into technology.
Scientists Made Color-Changing Paint Out of Gold Nanoparticles
It's like Hypercolor but for touch instead of heat.
This Is Big: Scientists Just Found Earth's First Cousin
Meet Kepler-186f, the closest thing to our planet ever discovered—and maybe our best shot at locating life elsewhere in the universe.
'Coffee Flour': The Java You Can Eat
Coffee's future may involve some not-so-average Joe.
Soon to Grace the NYC Skyline: Towers Made of Fungus
A cutting-edge building material promises structures that are both sustainable and ... compostable.