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MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group in collaboration with Bawendi Lab in the Department of Chemistry at MIT developed a digital camera capable of capturing data so quickly that we can actually watch light itself unfold in slow motion. Researchers cl...

A simple gear train is used to transmit rotary motion

You may have noticed that it has been a while since I posted a story. There are two reasons for this. I was on vacation from May 21-26th and I was without Internet access and I have not really seen anything worth posting. Well I am back from vacation...

An is an observed phenomenon in which a group of separated from the main foraging party lose the track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of . This has been reproduced in laborator...

Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the bra...

The Science of Paperplanes

The next generation of digital cameras could show us how bugs see the world.

Carbon dioxide.

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Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday.

If only these free-thinkers had lived. America would be so awesome.

Popular Science column Homemade Titanium (With Heat and Common Chemicals, the Author Turned Ore Into Metal) by Theodore Gray

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