How to Build a Breast Pump That Doesn’t Suck
On Sunday afternoon 10 harried but happy teams of hackers shared their inventions in Shark Tank-style five-minute presentations. The goal? To reinvent a clunky necessity of modern parenting: the breast pump. Engineers, healthcare workers, students, moms, and lots of babies gathered at the MIT Media Lab hackathon to tackle this sticky problem. The vibe was…
What Animal Tracks Mean For You
Big ones, small ones, cute ones and dangerous ones. The outdoors is full of animals, but often, the only way you’ll know they’re there is if you see the tracks they leave. Here’s how to identify them and use them to your advantage, even if you’re just a casual day hiker. How To Identify Tracks:…
10 Strange Projects In Development At NASA
NASA is pursuing future cosmic exploration with some rather unexpected whimsy. Occasionally fantastical but always backed by concrete science, here are 10 of the most awesomely strange projects NASA’s scientists are cooking up. 10. Dextre We’ve all seen footage of spacewalks—when astronauts dangle precariously off the side of the International Space Station, just begging to…
