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Subterranean museum wraps ribbons of green into surrounding landscape
April 02, 2025
| Adam Williams
What looks at a glance like a hilly section of landscape is actually a new greenery covered natural history museum by BIG. The energy efficient building is being built from wood and will allow visitors to walk all over its raised form.
Record-breaking tiny robot offloads electronics to fly by magnetism
March 31, 2025
| Ben Coxworth
Scientists have created what they say is the world's smallest untethered flying robot, by taking a unique approach to its design. To minimize size and weight, they've moved the bot's power and control systems out of its sub-centimeter-wide body.
MIT tech recreates old toys as interactive playthings in mixed reality
April 02, 2025
| Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Researchers have developed a mind-blowing tool to not only create a digital twin of your childhood toys and other precious items, but also make them function like the real thing in mixed reality. It's the future of preserving the past.
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April 02, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonA clever team out to "turn unconventional ideas into practical and unique products" has crafted a lightweight, slimline notebook that lets you write, erase and write again, bridging the gap between traditional paper pads and digital note-taking apps.
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April 01, 2025 | David SzondyNASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) was carried aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, whose mission ended on March 16.
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April 01, 2025TL;DR: Make peace with PDFs once and for all with a lifetime license to SwifDoo PDF Pro for Windows for just $29.97, the best price online, through April 27.
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April 01, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonOne of the most studied space rocks of all time has surprised us again, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas having cruised around the solar system for two million years without as much as a scratch. It defies the "fragile" class it belongs to.
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April 01, 2025 | C.C. WeissIs there no midpoint between a $200K+ camper van and time-sucking DIY build? The Outside Baseline van looks to establish it. The camper package takes care of the tough work and leaves the rest to DIY. An included bed is ready to camp immediately.
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April 01, 2025 | Joe SalasThe first time I used a slider, I was hooked. Every shot felt like a masterpiece. With the Trexo Wheels Go, anyone can knock out those perfect dolly effects – and more – without rails or ultra pricey gear.
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April 01, 2025 | Ben CoxworthWhile we've heard a lot about humanoid robots lately, the requirements for their bipedal walking gait will likely keep them quite expensive – and thus little-seen. By contrast, the FlashBot Arm is something you might actually encounter sometime soon.
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April 01, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalA team of California-based researchers has developed an incredible AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices.
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April 01, 2025 | Ben CoxworthWhile headphones do provide an immersive listening experience, music is made to be heard through a good set of speakers in a room. Movengine's AirCore OWH headphones are made to simulate that experience, and I recently got to give the things a try.
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April 01, 2025 | Paul RiddenTickets for autonomous flights over two tourist spots in China should go on sale shortly. China's civil aviation authority has given the green light for EHang to begin low-altitude commercial operations with its EH216-S eVTOL.
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