Can apps really make you fluent in another language?
For the last five months, I’ve had a daily date with a little green owl. It cheers me on...
Author : Cathy Klein
Why you shouldn’t trust everything you find in an AI web search
One of the many ways that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can help you is in searching the...
Sorry, aliens didn’t build Dyson spheres around these dwarf stars
There are many ways to scour the stars for intelligent life. You can search for radio signatures whose repetitions...
The surprising science behind Japan’s vending machine obsession
Japan is synonymous with vending machines. The island-nation has vending machines for everything: fresh flowers, bowls of hot ramen,...
Microduck is a robot built to fall down—and learn new tricks
Sorry, cats and dogs, there’s another goofy pet vying for your owner’s attention, and this one doesn’t have fur...
Butterfly wing crystals inspire new eco-friendly glitter
In her 80 years on planet Earth, Dolly Parton objectively made the world a better place, and her legacy...
Continental Tire’s newest line takes on the oldest tradeoff in driving
Car tires can appear deceptively simple at first glance, but a surprising amount of research goes into keeping you...
Over 200 million migratory birds are hitting the sky this week
Signs of the waning summer are everywhere. The sun is setting earlier, yellow school buses are emerging from hibernation,...
Engineers 3D-printed edible cookies from plastic
There is little to love about plastic. Most of the manufacturing processes still rely on fossil fuels, it often...
Lab-made DNA can store memory like a flash drive
Our DNA stores a remarkable amount of information. A single gram contains about 215 million gigabytes of data on...