King cobras take the train in India
The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) isn’t a difficult snake to spot. A fully grown adult easily reaches over 13...
Author : Cathy Klein
Facial recognition AI trained to work on bears
For most people, assessing a bear’s weight or fur color isn’t a top priority during an unexpected encounter in...
From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked
From figure skating to ice hockey, many of the most popular winter sports stem from a long history of...
Amazon’s 180 internet satellites are already too bright. It wants 3,000 more.
Amazon is racing to catch up to Starlink in the battle for satellite internet dominance, and it’s creating problems...
We may not have flying cars, but we have flying umbrellas
You wouldn’t think it, but for years people have looked at the humble umbrella and seen more than just...
How to stop annoying spam calls
Spam calls are the word, a waste of your time and a threat to your privacy and security. Unfortunately,...
Stingray-inspired robot cracks the mystery of how rays swim
To help figure out what makes stingrays such unique and unusual swimmers, a team of mechanical engineers at the...
This robot hand can detach from its arm and crawl around
Engineers in Switzerland recently created a detachable, spider-like robot hand capable of grabbing multiple objects and using its fingers...
How Nissan improved the wireless charging pad for faster phone juice-ups
In-car wireless chargers are notoriously finicky. Your phone can slide off the slippery charging pad at a sudden stop, ...
How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help
It’s harder than ever to tell AI-generated images from real photographs and illustrations produced by flesh-and-blood human beings. And...