Alex Eichler's posts

Toyota vehicles have been having a problem with sudden, uncontrollable acceleration lately. It's been variously…

Is it possible to send starter kits of Earth life to other worlds in the hopes of triggering terraforming processes…

A New Zealand aerospace company has developed the world's first commercially available jetpack. It travels sixty…

It seems we're always learning something new about slime molds, the bizarre roaming cell-colonies where countless…

A neuroscience professor has teamed up with a composer in the hopes of making music that stimulates different areas…

Are we drawing closer to a day when everything that's a "thing"—from spoons to shirts to skateboards—comes with an…

British material-design company Peratech recently inked a deal with MIT to create pressure-sensitive,…

Oblong Industries recently unveiled its new "spatial operating environment," a computer interface that lets you…

Do you like short works of fiction? Do you like things that are effin' strange? This may be the website for you.

Steve O'Shea already holds a world record for rearing squid in a controlled environment. But everybody's got a…

Want to promote an atmosphere of honesty and teamwork? Bust out some citrus candles and turn on all the lights. New…

If you ever get into a tense confrontation with a bee, and then you have to back down for whatever reason, don't try…

P/2010 A2, the mysterious object streaking through the solar system, appears to belong to the same family of…

In Hyderabad this week, Anthony James Leggett delivered some unwelcome news: The earth is warming. Good science…

This week, the Royal Society held a two-day seminar to discuss topics of extraterrestrial import. How might aliens…

According to researchers at Australian National University, the end of the universe will happen earlier than anyone…

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a robot that can do a number of basic…

Thanks to quantum computing, we now have a fairly precise idea how much energy a hydrogen molecule gives off. Gone…

Some kind of obstruction is blocking our view of Epsilon Aurigae, a star in the constellation Auriga. Its exact…

There's an igneous rock called peridotite that can sponge carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in…