Sugar is sweet but you know what’s sweeter? The science behind it. Harvard’s annual Science & Cooking public lecture series is back for the 2014 season and off to a great start. The series focuses on bringing world-renowned chefs to Harvard to teach about the intersection of science with cooking. READ MORE >
There is nothing better for opening your mind than immersing oneself into the culture of an unfamiliar country. Traveling can be fun and exciting, but there is one thing that could make it better – speaking the language. Thanks to our friends at Condé Nast we now have an unofficial READ MORE >
With the release of Apple’s new iOS system many of us are looking for fun interactive apps. During our search for the latest and greatest, we came across this pretty snazzy one call Loop. Loop allows users to create short hand-drawn animations that can be shared via email, Tumblr, and READ MORE >
Do you remember in grade school how heart wrenching it was when your teacher lost the assignment you worked on for days? Well Google has come up with some awesome technology to prevent that from happening again! Not only will the tool make tracking assignments easier for teachers, it will READ MORE >
Do you ever just have the kind of day at work when even walking to the printer takes up too much time? Well worry no more! Thanks to Fuji and Xerox there is a robot printer that is currently being tested in Tokyo. The printer/robot has the ability to come READ MORE >
What about 2.6 million pictures? We’ll soon find out! Kalev Leetaru, an American academic from Georgetown University, has been working tirelessly on creating an accessible database of over 2.6 million historic pictures. Some of the images date back as far as the sixteenth century and until now there has been READ MORE >
The technological revolution is upon us! In the short Video, Humans Need Not Apply, our world is exposed to that of the robot. The video sheds light on the fact that robots can do many of the things that us earthlings do – with better precision and accuracy, for a READ MORE >
Here’s some spellbinding news! Our friends at Harvard have developed a real life spell to make objects levitate. Well, maybe not a spell and maybe not ‘real’ levitation but they are certainly on their way. Scientists in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have started to use magnetic levitation READ MORE >
What’s a struggling baseball team do to keep the energy up in less than packed stadiums? Robots of course! The Hanwha Eagles have suffered more than 400 losses in the past five years, so fans are few and far between until now. By introducing a rowdy section of robots the READ MORE >
Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to wear your glasses when working on your computer? Better yet, your cell phone? Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed software that can actually adjust the intensity of each pixel in an image READ MORE >