It’s shaped like a turtle and swims like a turtle — but it’s actually a bionic robot. Evan Budz, a 15-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada, recently won a first-place prize in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists 2025 for his invention of an autonomous bionic sea turtle robot. The (adorable) device was developed to […]
Potholes are damaging, dangerous, and just plain annoying, but an ultra-strong substance could pave the way for smoother roads in our future. Derived from graphite, graphene is 1 million times thinner than a human hair yet stronger than steel and diamond — and in a recent trial in Essex, England, graphene-enhanced asphalt was successfully rolled out on a public road.
It’ll probably happen sooner than you’d like: waking up to frigid temperatures, scurrying from your house to your vehicle, and rubbing your hands together while waiting for the car heater to kick in. And once that gloriously warm air rushes through the vents, thawing your frozen face and clearing the fog from your windshield, you […]
Thanks to local anesthesia, it’s typically not painful to get a cavity filled — but that doesn’t mean the process is stress-free. The loud, shrill whining sound of the dental drill in your mouth can be anxiety-inducing even if you can’t feel the device. What’s more, the fear this noisy tool evokes hinders some people from getting the procedures they need to maintain good dental hygiene.
Artificial intelligence imagery is getting harder and harder to spot. In the best case scenario, we end up simply laughing at a funny moment that never actually happened. In the worst case, we buy into misinformation that warps our perception of what’s actually going on in the world. So, as technology continues moving at the […]
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Jobs — not only do you likely recognize these names, but you also probably associate them with the inventions that made them famous. But what about the other, often overlooked designers whose ingenuity has significantly improved our lives? Many innovators throughout history aren’t household names, so in honor of […]