Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...

When the lights flick back on after an outage, the real risk to your home often starts, not ends. The first few minutes of ...

Taking on DIY projects around your home and garden can be incredibly rewarding. From building a new planter box to installing ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Research shows that simple, practical strategies can help people stay active through Christmas and into the new year ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

These light up paper circuit cards were much easier to make than I expected and only need a few inexpensive materials.

I'm a mother of 2 who works in a research lab. These are the STEM-based toys my kids have played with the most over the years.

A research team at Duke University has developed a new AI framework that can uncover simple, understandable rules that govern ...

A blast from the Elektor archives: this 1998 battery tester uses a simple LED display to reveal a battery’s true condition under load — even below 1 V.

When people imagine a connection, they often picture intense moments of emotionality. But the real connection lives in the non-events that repeat without fanfare. We are conditioned to think that ...