Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

The promise of recycling seemed so simple decades ago: sort your materials, put them in the blue bin, and watch them transform into new products, with the assurance that you were simultaneously doing ...

Players must imagine the floor is made of lava and their only hope of survival is to spin the color wheel in order to find out which colored foam “safety stone” to jump to, while avoiding touching the ...

TerraCycle takes the items that local recycling centers cannot recycle, from razors to food wrappers to Swiffer pads. Here's how it works.

The Virtual Boy suffered from low sales and was discontinued in late 1995 in Japan, but survived for a few more months in North America. Only 22 games were officially published for the platform, ...

Understand How a Crane Works Before you start building, it is important to know how a crane functions. A crane uses a combination of levers and pulleys to lift objects that are too heavy for people to ...

Early progress in nanotechnology seemed to indicate a future crowded with nanoscale machinery to build new materials, repair our cells, and much more besides. It seemed straightforward until we got ...