Humanity first set foot on the moon on July 20th, 1969. There is mission data, video, and photos of the event, but a startling number of people still subscribe to the conspiracy theory that we never went to the moon at all. They insist it was all done on a soundstage, and the proof is right there

There are two versions custom-fitted to the iPhone 5S, one 350x and the other a whopping 1000x. For other devices, grab the multi-platform files. You’re limited to 100x and 350x magnification, but there’s an additional file that adds a slideholder to the clip. Like the cardboard Foldscope, keeping

Soft robots aren't just supremely flexible; they can take quite a bruising, too. If you need proof, a team of Harvard and Cornell researchers has developed a rugged soft robot that can survive conditions which would wreck stiffer machines. As you'll see in the video below, the automaton's silicone

IT administrators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are preparing to perform an interplanetary remote wipe and reboot on its Martian Opportunity rover after the decade-old explorer began to get a bit senile. The latest view from Mars sent by Opportunity Opportunity's computer systems are powered

For a long time the trend has been for engineers to design the smartest, most advanced robots possible to complete a task, but maybe a swarm of smaller, simpler ones makes more sense. This is a concept being investigated by NASA with its Swarmie test program. It’s an adorable name for what is