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Hot Food, Fast: The Home Microwave Oven
A serendipitous discovery helped engineers harness radar to create the now ubiquitous timesaving appliance
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Could This Be the Most Efficient Solar Panel Ever?
Taking advantage of temperatures upwards of 1,000 Celsius, these hot solar cells could produce twice as much energy as the industry standard
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From Trash To Treads: Turning Tomato Peels and Eggshells Into Tires
Scientists at Ohio State University are replacing the petroleum-based filler in tires with food waste
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One Writer Used Statistics to Reveal the Secrets of What Makes Great Writing
In his new book, data journalist Ben Blatt takes a by-the-numbers look at literary classics and finds some fascinating patterns
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The Patents and Trademarks Behind Lucky Charms Cereal
There’s a lot of food science that goes into those marshmallow clovers
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How Daily Images of the Entire Earth Will Change the Way We Look At It
With more satellites than any other company, Planet Labs gives environmental researchers daily data
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How Humans Invented Numbers—And How Numbers Reshaped Our World
Anthropologist Caleb Everett explores the subject in his new book, Numbers and the Making Of Us
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Could This Chatbot Prevent Some Deportations?
Visabot helps immigrants and visitors to the United States obtain and keep visas
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In Its Layers, This Stunning Pink Coralline Algae Holds Secrets of Climates Past
Unseen and unsung for centuries, these underwater species of coralline algae are providing scientists with an unparalleled new archive of information
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Can Social Media Give Sharks a Better Reputation?
A nonprofit called Ocearch is naming tagged sharks and giving them Twitter and Instagram accounts to ease fears and aid in conservation
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In Smart Cities of the Future, Posters and Street Signs Can Talk
University of Washington engineers show how “smart” posters can send a message via FM radio waves to smartphone or car radio
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Charging Ahead: The Future of Batteries
Battery research is at a tipping point, and it’s never been more important
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Scientists Track, For the First Time, One of the Rarest Songbirds on Its Yearlong Migration
The journey of the Kirtland’s warbler is discovered thanks to a combination of the latest tiny technology and centuries-old solar location methods
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Reprintable Paper Becomes a Reality
Coating paper with an inexpensive thin film can allow users to print and erase a physical page as many as 80 times
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Fighting Illegal Fishing With Big Data
Global Fishing Watch is using satellite data to monitor suspicious ship activity on the high seas
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If We Can Get Past the Ickiness, Hagfish Slime May Actually Be Useful to Us
The gelatinous glop could be the key to everything from bio-inspired kevlar to shark defense for divers
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The Historic Innovation of Land Mines—And Why We’ve Struggled to Get Rid of Them
A number of researchers are developing tools to defuse or detonate land mines without harming civilians
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The New IMAX Film “Dream Big” Roots for the Underdogs in the Engineering World
Director Greg MacGillivray’s latest documentary premieres at the National Air and Space Museum
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Fulcrum BioEnergy wants to divert trash from landfills and create cheap green energy
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Can a Video Game Capture the Magic of Walden?
Henry David Thoreau’s famed retreat gets pixelated
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