In today’s episode, we’re uncovering the ten most shocking booby traps of World War II, from the German “Bouncing Betty” that launched itself into the air before shredding entire squads, to butterfly ...

The tricks use simple objects found almost anywhere. Each one relies on timing, perception, and misdirection. What looks impossible often has a straightforward explanation. Small details make the ...

At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of 35-millimeter film. But what happens when you want to take a picture of something ...

With no Moon in the evening sky, let’s visit a favorite gem that’s now well above the horizon in the few hours leading up to midnight: the Orion Nebula (M42). Hanging below the easily recognized belt ...

Recent research suggests that humans have a surprising ability—we can sometimes feel a physical object before making contact with it. In a study published this past October in the journal IEEE ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

If you find 3D printers to be just a little too coldly futuristic, this contraption might be more to your liking. Scientists from Cornell University have created a machine that knits solid 3D objects ...

Imaging buried objects Left: artistic impression of metal spheres buried in small glass beads; centre: conventional ultrasound image; right: the new technology can precisely determine the positions of ...

Abstract: Camouflaged object detection (COD) and salient object detection (SOD) are two distinct yet closely-related computer vision tasks widely studied during the past decades. Though sharing the ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...