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Was This Psychedelic Image Made by Man or Machine?

06.18.15

By Ysabelle Cheung
Tech

This Classic Algorithmic Problem Can’t Get Any Less Complex (Deal With It)

06.15.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Explaining Reality Starts with This Souped-Up Future Machine

06.05.15

By Paul Tadich
Tech

Scientists Made Spider Silk Without Any Spiders

05.29.15

By Victoria Turk
Tech

Robot Cheetah Jumps a Hurdle, Heralds the Robo-Pocalypse

05.29.15

By Sami Emory
Tech

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Can Hurdle Obstacles Now

05.28.15

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

The Mechanical Engineering Future Is Caught Up in a 3D-Printed Spider Web

05.17.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Do Not Fuck With This Beetle

05.03.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

An Algorithm for Detecting the World’s Invisible Vibrations

04.25.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Is Probabilistic Programming the Future of Computer Graphics?

04.19.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

MIT Thinks It Can Get You to Use Bitcoin

04.16.15

By Jordan Pearson
Food

Eating the Uncanny Valley: Inside the Virtual Reality World of Food

04.13.15

By Alex Swerdloff

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Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

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By Luis Prada
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Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

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By Luis Prada
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Life

Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

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By Luis Prada
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Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

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By Haley Miller
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Alaska’s Beluga Whales Have Wild Sex Lives—and It Keeps Them Alive

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