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“New” Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master’s Death
The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work
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Researchers Make Cyborg Beetles a Reality
Outfitted with microprocessor-equipped backpacks, scientists can control the beetle’s steps via remote control
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Tower Lights Will Soon Blink for the Sake of Birds
With a simple blink, tall towers can go from deadly to bird-friendly
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Switzerland Will Host the First Cyborg Olympics
The “Cybathlon” will show what happens when humans and machines collaborate
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Tesla vs. Edison Is a Video Game That Will Literally Shock You
Fight the ‘War of the Currents’
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An AI-Written Novella Almost Won a Literary Prize
A short novel co-written by humans and AI passed the first round of a Japanese literary contest
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This News Website Is a Lakota-Speaker’s “Dream”
Woihanble.com could help preserve a threatened language
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Tropical diseases and coal tar have a lot to do with brightly-colored clothing
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This Pattern Is Made of 2,100 Dead Birds
It’s all part of a bid to raise awareness of the plight of birds that crash into city buildings
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Virtual Reality is Coming to Real-Life Rollercoasters
Soar with Superman or pilot an alien-fighting jet
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The Shifting Shapes of Solar Farms
They’re more than just massive fields of black panels
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A Restored Skyscraper in LA Will Feature a Terrifying Glass Slide
Going to the bank just got that much scarier
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Japan Has a Hotel Staffed by Robots
Androids, velociraptors and talking toys are all part of the experience at the Henn-na Hotel
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Google’s New A.I. Can Tell Exactly Where a Photo Was Taken
A new neural network is better than humans at sussing out the location of a picture
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These Glass Discs Can Store Data for Billions of Years
“Five-dimensional” data discs could be the future of information storage
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Millennials Drink More Wine Than Anyone Else
The much-maligned generation has a penchant for vino
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Scientists Printed a Human Ear
The scientific breakthrough is more than a creepy experiment—one day, it could save lives
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Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Smash a Cockroach
Scientists chased and crushed cockroaches—and their results could one day save lives
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