Category Science & Discovery

An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. However, the ruler’s identity remains a mystery—as do many details of his long-lost dynasty. The existence of an Abydos Dynasty was…

Spatial modulation of the superconducting gap encoded in color and measured using scanning tunneling microscopy. Credit: Lingyuan Kong, IQIM/AWS Postdoctoral Fellow Superconductivity is a quantum physical state in which a metal is able to conduct electricity perfectly without any resistance.…

Cuts to research funding in the US have forced many scientists to rethink their careers.Credit: Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in…

Before remotes became sleek slabs of glass with touchpads and voice assistants, they used to click. And we liked the way that felt. The Function101 Button Remote for Apple TV brings back that retro feel—no Siri, no swipey-swipes, just big,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Banning smartphone and social media access alone fails to equip children for healthy use of technology, argues a group of international experts in The BMJ. They say the focus should shift to a rights-based approach, underpinned…

Emilia Krok has changed how she communicates her wheelchair use to potential employers.Credit: Michał Lesiński/Poznan University of Technology When I was three years old, doctors misdiagnosed my tumour as cancerous. The prolonged and debilitating chemotherapy, combined with the delayed surgical…

Laptops are the Goldilocks of electronics. Their screen size is bigger than a smartphone’s, but their weight and portability are better than a laptop’s. They typically come at an affordable price, like this Lenovo 11.6″ 100e Chromebook 2nd Gen, currently…

Promising directions in the design, fabrication, characterization, and application of 3D architected materials (from left to right, top to bottom): 3D woven metamaterials, aperiodic self-assembled morphologies, microscale impact experiments, and pressure sensing functionalities. Credit: James Utama Surjadi et al Metamaterials…

Boulder, Colorado A major Arctic-science conference got caught up this week in the fight between US President Donald Trump, who says the United States should take over Greenland, and Greenlandic and Danish leaders, who say it should not. Trump team…

Human-looking bipedal robots can already run, jump, breakdance, punch, and generally perform broad feats of athletic prowess most humans could only dream of. One thing they are still pretty bad at though is walking a straight line without looking like…