Two thousand year-old recipe required less greenhouse gas Worldwide, we use a lot of concrete—19 billion tons a year, to be exact. This m... Read More

On this day in 1984, Tetris, one of the most beloved brain games ever, was released. Designed by Alexey Pajitnov while he was working for t... Read More

Humans have covered their heads throughout history. At first to protect their skulls against all sorts of violence - falling rocks, hatchets... Read More

Is racism a matter of perspective gone wrong? And, if so, how can we fix it? A new study in Consciousness and Cognition demonstrates tech... Read More

World record holder for solar aviation on its way across North America. Another leg of the ambitious "Across America" journey for the w... Read More

Exploring the intersection between digital and biological fabrication. SILK PAVILION from Mediated Matter Group on Vimeo. 3d printing, p... Read More

A 2009 study suggest that the act of kissing might be important because it helps us build up our immune system - specifically women during p... Read More

Mapping music on Facebook A lot of people use online music-streaming services such as Spotify to listen to music. Many of them use these ... Read More

Lab work at the Geophysical Laboratory in Dallas, Texas, 1939. Source: SMU Central University Libraries / Flickr  how scientists work... Read More

How did one toast some bread in the 1920s? The toaster was probably first invented and put on the market by the company General Electrics i... Read More

The significance of bicycles in terms of design and technological development. Meet James, an Australian bike collector who is a walking en... Read More

Previously unknown design could be model for medical devices, industrial design Bats need to eat a lot to keep flying. So, the more e... Read More

Is it an Orchid? A Dahlia maybe? No - it's a sheep's penis inside of a cow's vagina. "Not a Rose began as an innocent question: Why do fl... Read More

A critical views of our cities and society through art. "Rapport/Stadt Tapete" (1981) by contemporary artist Thomas Bayrle, a fantastic d... Read More

Too much security could affect your health As I mentioned yesterday, the White House launched its initiative of releasing massive amounts o... Read More

New information can fuel new technologies, speed up innovation "Open data provides huge opportunities for the U.S." The White House and... Read More

Scientists tweak genes to create more efficient mini-computer The machinery inside every cell is an amazingly efficient and complex factory... Read More

A mesmerizing view of one of the most unique cities in the world. This time lapse video of Dubai was taken in January of this year and ... Read More

Dutch self-built hamburger offers new perspective The new burger costs some 250.000 euros, but no cow has been slaughtered for it. Dr. ... Read More

Everyone's needed to improve online ecosystem “Cyber threats” are a bigger danger to this country than terrorism — at least that’s ... Read More

Many abstract painters use models to create their art works. What if their paintings had not been abstract, but a realistic representation o... Read More

Quantum networks are expected in the near future. Google dominates the global market for search engines with over one billion search reques... Read More

$10 million contest to make a real medical tricorder. It was straight out of science fiction—a man on a plane starts sweating, feeling ch... Read More

A new take on the classic idea of machines being alive. The film is called "Reach", a student film project by Luke Randall that has won... Read More

It fits in the garage, rides on roads and flies like a helicopter Terrafuggia predicts it will just take 8 to 12 years to make these te... Read More

How the use of small batteries can vastly improve wind energy. If you've traveled in the North America, Europe or China over the past d... Read More

PhD student collects DNA of strangers to create their portraits. Electronic arts student Heather Dewey-Hagborg took a crash course in molec... Read More

Where do you belong in tomorrow's world? United Micro Kingdom (UmK): A Design Fiction presents a fictional future for the United Kingdom, f... Read More

First artificial "insect" takes to the air. It took them more than 10 years, but Harvard engineers and scientists developed a tiny, bee... Read More

IBM Research made this microscopic movie to explore storage limits. It's not a joke, this movie was really made by moving single atoms ... Read More

As more people cycle, better designs are needed Bicycling is becoming much more popular. In the Netherlands, about 30 percent of the popula... Read More

See how promising technology creates energy. Fuel cells are an exciting new development in the search for alternatives to fossil fuels.... Read More

This project, titled 'On Space Time Foam', was created by artist Tomás Saraceno,  together with the help of a multidisciplinary team of a... Read More

Part submarine, part yacht, it could be the future of island getaways. As many tropical islands around the world face the threat of dis... Read More

If we would get the chance to go back in time to witness important or iconic moments in history, how would we behave? Would we actually try ... Read More

Would you like to have a living chair in your garden? It may take eight to ten years, but artist Peter Cook shows that it's possible. This p... Read More