War In Infrared And Other Amazing Images From This Week
InfraRichard Mosse via Co.DesignPlus tiny Star Wars art, a self-healing microchip and more Click here to enter the gallery
View ArticleYour Complete Guide To Chocolate Flavors [Infographic]
Chocolate CheerClick here to see this amazing image even larger.Sean SeidellAll your vital questions about the world's single-origin chocolate flavors, answered Sean Seidell, graphic designer and...
View ArticleWatch This Absolutely Beautiful Animated Explanation Of DNA
A brief history of the foundation of life, distilled to its foundation. BBC Knowledge Explainer DNA from Territory on Vimeo.This short history of DNA from the BBC really knocks it out of the park, both...
View ArticleAutodesk CEO Carl Bass On The Future Of 3-D Printing At Home
The future of 3-D printingDave Mosher"In five to 10 years... you're going to be able to print DNA and tissue." This much is certain: The fabricate-at-home future has arrived, and it's here to stay. But...
View ArticleA Solid-Gold Miniature Replica Of Apollo 11, Because Why Not?
Apollo 11 In GoldForbes Galleries via Daily IconPart of an exhibition of jewelry inspired by space happening at the Forbes Galleries. Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age, an exhibition opening...
View ArticleA New Plan For A 3-D Printed House That's Actually House-Like
The First 3-D Printed House?DUS via The Architect's NewspaperWe've got a few contenders now. Who's going to print a house first? We've already covered two plans for a 3-D printed house, and they...
View ArticleBeerSci: Are Hops Addictive?
Beersci LogoTodd DetwilerIt certainly looks that way if you hang around beer people. Modern-day hopheads--the beer drinkers who gleefully, obsessively seek out hoppier and hoppier brews--don't usually...
View ArticleMegapixels: Monkeys Take A Ride On The World's Largest Rodent
Friends in Low PlacesSupervliegzus 2010/Getty ImagesWheeeeeeee! In the rainforests of South America, squirrel monkeys and capybaras would never meet. While squirrel monkeys live in trees up to 60 feet...
View Article5 Services We'd Rather See Google Kill Than Google Reader
Google Plus It's starting to feel a little old-hat to make fun of Google Plus, but, come on, Google, you're not going to be getting petitions to keep Plus around like you are with Reader. Just quietly...
View ArticleScientists Resurrect Bonkers Extinct Frog That Gives Birth Through Its Mouth
Gastric-Brooding FrogAustralian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the ArtsIt's been gone since 1983, but the Lazarus Project has brought it back to life. In 1983, the world...
View ArticleHow Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To...
Hot And Cold ClimaWare knee wrap Dhama InnovationsKranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius....
View ArticleAn Inhalable Tornado Of Whisky
Whisky TornadoBompas & ParrTickets are available now. Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are a breed unto themselves; young British purveyors of culinary spectacle whose most recent book, Feasting, includes...
View ArticleThis Week In The Future: A Monkey Masterpiece
This Week In The Future, March 11-15, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, when the super-intelligent apes and gun-toting dolphins have taken over, they will have their own Renaissance. Want to win this...
View ArticleYes, You Can Tell From His Face What Your Dog Is Feeling
Mal, In Various States of ConcernTina Bloom and Harris Friedman/Behavioral ProcessesPeople can correctly identify a wide range of dog emotions by sight. People can reliably read a dog's facial...
View ArticleSmartphone Tech Measures Your Pulse By Looking At Your Face
Measuring the pulse from color changes in the faceFujitsuA Japanese company is working on the technology, which it says it'll have ready by the end of the year. New software under development could let...
View ArticleWatch A Spaceship The Width Of A Hair Get 3-D Printed In Real Time
Crazy small, crazy fast, and crazy fun to watch. About a year ago, we reported on a team using "two-photon lithography" to 3-D print a teeny, tiny racecar in about four minutes. That was insanely...
View ArticleLicense to Print: 3-D Gunmaker Defense Distributed Now Open For Business (Sorta)
Type 7 License Image Uploaded to Facebookby Defense DistributedOn Saturday, 3-D printed gunsmith Defense Distributed published on Facebook a photograph of its newly acquired Title 7 Federal Firearms...
View ArticleLive From Space With Chris Hadfield, Canada's First Space Station Commander
Chris Hadfield Wearin' o' the green in space. via Twitter"Danny Boy" from space is just one of many Hadfield highlights. Lots of astronauts living on the International Space Station are prolific...
View ArticleSlow-Motion Video Of A Bridge Exploding Is The Best Way To Start The Week
Fort Steuben Bridge Click here to see this amazing image even larger.AP Photo/Herald Star/Michael D. McElwainJust sit back and enjoy the carnage. Monday mornings pretty much always make me feel like...
View ArticleMars Rover Curiosity Uncovers A Watery Past Throughout Gale Crater
Hydration Map at Knorr Rock On this image of the rock target "Knorr," colors map the amount of mineral hydration indicated by a ratio of near-infrared reflectance intensities measured by the Mast...
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