You don’t need to be a gadget lover or technology geek to understand the significance of cells. Many gadgets and devices that we use in our everyday life still run on batteries. This can be highly frustrating if you rely on disposable batteries—it can seem like you’re stuck in an …

Helsinki-based artist Joachim Munter welcomes you to enter the fairytale-like wildlife of Finland. Seeing his portraits of local forest animals, you Read More

Often larger is better, however other times it’s all about the details, and as you can see from the winners of Nikon’s 2017 Little World Photomicrography competition, it doesn’t get more detailed than this. The competitors, which is now in its 43rd year, brings in doctors, scientists, and macro photography …

Google’s mobile payment platform has gone through almost as many revamps as its messaging apps, but maybe today will be the last one for a long time. Google is completing its transition to the “Google Pay” platform, which will absorb both Android Pay and Google Wallet. There’s even a shiny …

If you’re invited to tour MIT’s Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. when they’re having a Lab Lunch, you’ll witness a mob of students, staff, and faculty sitting together over a meal, in pursuit of the social aspects of the lab’s free-wheeling “anti-disciplinary” culture that encourages researchers to break out of …

Samsung announced today that it has begun production of a new, mind-blowing 30TB SSD. This is a marked departure from previous eras, when the steady advance of storage capacity was driven exclusively by magnetic media and spinning disks. Companies have demonstrated high-capacity NAND flash storage for years, but nobody else …

NASA’s Kepler satellite has confirmed once and for all that planets are not a rarity in the universe. In more than eight years in space, the observatory has detected more than 2,000 confirmed exoplanets in orbit of other stars, and now you can add more to the list. A review …

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an important tool for scientists studying the red planet. Not only can it take high-resolution images of Mars from its position in space, it serves as a vital communications link for rovers on the planet. That’s why NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took aggressive action …

It’s common for NASA’s meticulous engineering to yield above average results. Most space missions are active much longer than the original mission parameters require. It’s not uncommon for probes and rovers to last years longer than expected, but the Opportunity rover is in a completely different league. This plucky little …

An international team of lepidopterists has compiled the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for butterflies to date. The results appear in the journal Current Biology. First comprehensive map of butterfly evolution: branch support is color coded according to the support thresholds indicated on the legend, and the shape indicates whether the …