You eventually tune it out, but the constant whir of a desktop computer’s cooling fans can take a toll on your psyche. It’s like a buzzing mosquito that never strikes, and never stops. So the folks at a German company called Silent Power have created a compact desktop PC that trades noisy fans for a block of exposed copper foam that dissipates heat so effectively no fans are required. Read more…
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A Nest of Copper Foam Lets This Tiny PC Run Silently Without Fans
Solar power is one of the most reliable forms of renewable power—but it’s still expensive. Now, a team has developed a smart, adaptive material that could slash the its cost in half. Read more…
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A New Adaptive Material Could Halve the Cost of Solar Power
Earth is an unforgiving place. Volcanoes erupt, rivers erode, continents break up—it’s a small miracle every time a millions-of-years-old creature is found fossilized in rock. By comparison, the moon is dead and lifeless; astronaut footprints will be preserved forever in moon dust. So it’s the moon that could hold the secrets to life on ancient Earth. Read more…
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The Moon Might Be Littered With Fossils From Ancient Earth
If humanity hopes to realize its dreams of exploring the stars, we’re going to need to find ways to recreate life on Earth aboard a spaceship. Simply stockpiling enough vital supplies isn’t going to cut it, which is what led Julian Melchiorri , a student at the Royal College of Art, to create an artificial biological leaf that produces oxygen just like the ones on our home planet do. Read more…
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The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen
A team of security researchers has discovered a security flaw in Google’s mobile OS which affects handsets running versions up to and including 4.4—leaving a potential 82 percent of Android users at risk. Read more…
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A ‘Fake ID’ Flaw in Android Leaves Millions of Phones Vulnerable
Many of us rely on Dropbox for file syncing and backup, but you might not be aware of all the different extensions and services that you can plug into it. Here are our five favorite Dropbox add-ons to supercharge your storage. Read more…
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5 Essential Add-Ons For Dropbox
Do smartphone-wielding citizens of the world need an excuse to snap more selfies? Absolutely not! And yet, against all odds, there is something undeniably charming about Imoji , an app that allows you to turn your face—or anything you’ve got a photo of—into a little textable you-moji. Read more…
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Turn Your Dumb Selfie Into a Textable Emoji, Annoy and Delight Your Pals
The Hitachi Seaside Park is one of the most beautiful parks in the planet: A place where millions of flowers grow every year in the most amazing displays of colors imaginable. Here you can see about 4.5 million baby-blue nemophilas blossoming in April—but there’s more, much more. Read more…
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A never-ending ocean of 4.5 million flowers in Japan
Chuck Palahniuk is writing the second part of Fight Club. It won’t be a new film (yet?)— Dark Horse is publishing this new story in a 10-issue maxiseries illustrated by Cameron Stewart, starting in 2015. Read more…
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Fight Club 2 is coming in 2015
The advent of online file sharing made it easy for anyone to copy and distribute media for free, and many feel—and fear—that 3D printing will eventually do the same for physical products. So it’s surprisingly refreshing to hear that a corporation like Hasbro has decided to embrace 3D printing, and will work with Shapeways to allow fans to design and sell their own toys based on the company’s properties. Read more…
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Hasbro Won’t Mind If You Design (And Sell) Your Own 3D-Printed Toys