Science and Tech

If you ever wanted to know how to make a really good scientific guess as to the amount of M&Ms in a jar, this is how it’s done. If you are too impatient to sit through a short solid state physics background lecture, skip to 3:30 and you will...

Carlito from Carlitos’ Contraptions had a problem, he had a locked safe that he wanted to open and he didn’t want to get a professional in to do the job for him....

It was sixth time lucky for the Endeavor after a series of delays kept the space shuttle from making the trip to the International Space Station....

The iSoft team has done the unthinkable, using an untouched Windows 95 image and the Bochs emulator, they have managed to stick Windows 95 on an iPhone. The boot time is an appalling 5-10 minutes, but the team is hoping for some improved performance from the new 3GS. The...

Australian graphics designer Josh Darrah is the man responsible for this rather stunning case mod, which saw him gut his iPod Mini and reassemble it in an Australian red cedar case with brass finishings....

The PhD project of Jorge Lopes, a Brazilian design student at London’s Royal College of Art, offers the potential to allow expecting parents to “hold” their unborn children....

NASA has unveiled plans for an extraordinary experiment, one that will hopefully come to a dramatic conclusion with the crash a rocket booster into the surface of the moon followed by a six-mile high explosion....

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has made a name for himself performing all manner of odd experiments during his time on the International Space Station (ISS). The ideas for the unusual experiments, which see Wakata doing everything from folding clothes to arm wrestling, were submitted to the Japan Aerospace Exploration...

There is no shortage of bizarre weight-loss products in Japan, but the “Boneless Belt” reaches new heights of strangeness. The elasticized belt lifts and separates chunks of a person’s abdominal fat with the aim of boosting metabolism to speed weight-loss....