Feedback: Humming this Spanish pop song might save a life
13 June 2018
Dance moves not needed. Plus: the case for ecstasy fuelled diplomacy, how politics is killing Thanksgiving, the door mistaken for a penis bone, and more...
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Get food on the go with this roaming robot table
13 June 2018
Make sure nobody goes hungry during your next Netflix binge with a snack-laden room rover
Unseemly Seams
13 June 2018
When I buy a new cotton vest or T-shirt, the side seams are always straight and parallel. After a few washes, one piece of material seems to move relative to the other, and the seams are never again parallel. Why is this?
Fobbed Off
13 June 2018
When I use the electronic key fob to lock or unlock my car, no other car parked nearby has its locks activated. This is as it should be, but how does the system work?
Light at the limit
13 June 2018
People have been measuring the speed of light for a few hundred years, but the universe is nearly 14 billion years old. If the speed of light changes very slowly – say a small percentage every 10,000 years – how could we tell?
These hyper-real androids are climbing out of the uncanny valley
13 June 2018
UK robotics firm Engineered Arts is making androids for film launches… and sometimes leaving them in the pub
