In 5th grade, we had a class project to interview one of our grandparents. It seemed simple enough: Spend time with someone who loved you and ask them questions about their life. Looking back, I ...

To translate experience into insight for other founders, they emphasize four interlocking principles: resilience, preparation ...

A brain teaser is a short, playful puzzle designed to make your mind stretch and smile. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that nudges you to think beyond the ...

Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

A brain teaser is a short, playful puzzle designed to stretch your mind and make you smile. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that nudges you to think beyond ...

Imagine you are out on a walk. Outside the house in the fresh air you may have left the walls behind, but even so there are boundaries that limit where you can wander. In a city, you are constrained ...

Photolithography involves the selective exposure of a photosensitive material to light, using a UV light source and a collimating optical system to create an image of a patterned mask onto a substrate ...

As Autumn starts to approach, people will be gearing up for the cosy season - and shoppers have been raving about this new bedding set from Very. As we welcome darker nights drawing in, leaves falling ...

Crystals might look simple, but their growth tells a far more complex and fascinating story. From grains of salt to diamonds, crystals form when particles lock into repeating patterns. For many years, ...

In retrospect, it makes sense that Daniel Hollander’s case brought tensions between Tucson police and the Pima County Attorney’s Office out into the open. Hollander put himself in a position to commit ...