Four inventions that might change the world
Adults TechnologyTiny lab-grown organs. A spongy cloth that absorbs oil spills. Sure, why not. These are some of the finalists for the European Inventor Award.
Moore's Law Is Ending... So, What's Next?
Adults TechnologyScientists are engineering a new, more efficient generation of computer chips by modeling them after the human brain.
Storing the Sun's Energy in Liquid Could Change Solar Forever
Adults TechnologyResearchers have just found two new ways to make solar power more efficient. Could this solve our energy crisis?
We Found Another State of Matter: The Supersolid!
Adults TechnologyScientists have created, yet another state of matter called a supersolid! But what is it, and what does it do?
Japan's robot volleyball team
Adults TechnologyOne thing stands between Japan and the Volleyball World Cup: a team of robot jocks.
A Robot Just Performed the First-Ever Surgery Inside the Human Eye
Adults TechnologyA surgeon uses controls to guide the robot.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
Adults TechnologyThirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Climate Lab - Climate Lab - Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
Adults TechnologySmartphones shouldn't be so disposable. Could fixing the way we make our phones help solve climate change?
Thin underwater cables hold the internet. See a map of them all.
Adults TechnologyYour internet isn't just underwater. It's also covered in Vaseline.
What are the challenges of nuclear power? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
Adults TechnologyOur ability to mine great amounts of energy from uranium nuclei has led some to bill nuclear power as a plentiful, utopian source of electricity. But rather than dominate the global electricity market, nuclear power has declined from a high of 18% in 1996 to 11% today. What happened to the great promise of this technology? M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.
Using GPS to Get Around Is Making Us Dumber
Adults TechnologyGPS services have made getting from point A to point B a lot easier, but what effects does this have on our brains?
Meet the Man Who Strapped Himself to a Rocket, For Science
Adults TechnologyOne man's quest to test the human limits of gravity on the human body.
Hackers Can Now Break Into Your Phone Using Music
Adults TechnologyNew research shows sound waves can manipulate the accelerometer in your phone; what implications does this have for data security?
Graphene Could Solve the World's Water Crisis
Adults TechnologyTurning saltwater into clean drinking water is an expensive, energy-intensive process, but could the wonder material graphene make it more accessible?
Why Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium Matters: Future MEGAPROJECTS
Adults TechnologyAtlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the most expensive stadium ever built. The $1.6 billion price tag was driven by a spectacular retractable roof design, an LED video board that is by far the world's largest, and the pursuit of LEED platinum certification.
How Google's featured answers can go terribly wrong
Adults TechnologyWhy Google search once said Obama was a king and dinosaurs weren't real.
100 Years of Home Innovation ? Mode.com
Adults TechnologyIncluding toasters, radios, and microwave ovens, there have been a number of life-changing household breakthroughs through the years. Follow along to see the smartest appliances and laborsaving devices that have emerged in the last century.
Charge Your Cell Phone In 5 Seconds
Adults TechnologySupercapacitors: They'll enable you to charge your cell phone in 5 seconds, or an electric car in about a minute. They're cheap, biodegradable, never wear out and as Trace'll tell you, could be powering your life sooner than you'd think.
Amazing Images of a Changing Earth
Adults TechnologyIncredible before-and-after satellite images of our dynamic planet.
Illuminating the Universe: The History of Light
Adults TechnologyBeyond what we can touch, taste, smell, and hear, we experience the universe through light. But how did we come to discover light, and how did we learn light's true nature, as the fastest thing in the universe, an electromagnetic spectrum, a wave and particle capable of the most amazing things? Here is the history of light, according to physics.
14-Year-Old Prodigy Programmer Dreams In Code
Adults TechnologyFourteen-year-old programmer and software developer Santiago Gonzalez might just be the next Steve Jobs. He already has 15 iOS apps to his name and dreams of designing for Apple. At age 12, Santiago became a full-time college student and is on track to earn his bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering by age 16. By 17, when most teenagers are excited to just have their driver's license, Santiago will have his masters degree.