• Stretchable Fabric Battery Could Power Wearables with Sweat
• The Best Hearing Aid in the World Is Made of Spider Silk Dipped in Gold
• Weird Critter May Help Us to Heal Livers
• The Mud That Could Save the World
• Stuffed Animals Help Scientists Learn How Sea Lion Moms…
Stand on Surface of Mercury, Swim in Sand
• When Cream Hits Coffee, the Math Is Magical
• The Shockwaves on a Rain-Soaked Window Screen Are Wonderfully Unique
• Making Liquid Out of Sand and Air
• What Kind of Sorcery Lets People Swim in This Sand-Filled Hot Tub?
• Watch This Soothing Video…
Imaginnovation
• Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
• America’s Lost Einsteins
• Groundbreaking Empirical Research Shows Where Innovation Really Comes From
• Here’s How Imagination Works
• 6 Proven Benefits of Being More Imaginative
• 4 Proven Ways to Stimulate Your Imagination Throughout the Da…
Zip, Clip, Crimp, & Crumple
• How Sexy Can a Paper Clip Get? (Study)
• Medical Uses for Paper Clips
• Why Does a Crumpled Paper Balloon Inflate When Batted Around?
• How to Make Any Shape Zippable (Research Study)
• Just Denting an Aluminum Can Makes People Less Likely to Recycle It
Thinking Points
• Alan Alda: Relating Through Improvisation
• Nobel Prize Winners Are Put to the Task of Drawing Their Discoveries
• What to Do 30 Days, Hours, and Minutes Before A Brainstorming Session
• How Elon Musk Uses the Scientific Method
• Highly Intelligent Leaders Rated as Less Effectiv…
AI Applications 1
• How Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Archival Museum Research
• Using Digitized Botany Specimens, AI Excels in Simple Curatorial Tasks
• Can Swarming Robots and Cloud Umbrellas Help Save Coral Reefs?
• Drip by Kickstarter, a Continuously Funding Tool for Artists to Build Community a…
Trash to Treasure
• The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
• High-Tech Skyscrapers Could Be Built with Low-Tech Wood
• The Skyscrapers of the Future Could Be Built with the Garbage of Today
• Boaters Stumble on Massive Caribbean Gyre of Plastic Garbage
• Sweden’s Recycling Program Is Doing So Well They’ve Run Ou…
Learning from Nature
• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
• Wake Up and Smell the Traffic? London Tries Coffee to Power Buses
• Holy Smokes! Tobacco May Fuel Planes in the Future
• Full of Beans: Coffee Grounds to Help Power London’s Buses
• This Commuter Bus Runs on Poo…
Face Recognition
• Named-Cow Researcher Recognizes Merit in Research on Sheep Recognizing People
• How Do Animals Recognize Each Other?
• People Can Accurately Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions
• How to Have a Well-Behaved Puppy: Make Sure It Sees a Man with a Mustache Within Six Weeks of Birth
• Dog Ownership Is Linked t…
Lava’s Gonna Ooze
• A Wall of Lava Lamps That Generate Enough Randomness to Help Keep the Internet Secure
• One of the Secrets Guarding the Secure Internet Is a Wall of Lava Lamps
• How These Lava Lamps Are Securing the Internet
• The Lava Lamps That Help Keep the Internet Secure
Let It Go
• After the NYC Marathon, Where Does All the Poop Go?
• A Portable Kit Relies on Everyday Items to Bring Toilets to Disaster Zones
• Is It Dangerous to Hold Your Urine?
• There’s No Toilet Like Home
Demography in Turmoil
• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…
Animal Inspiration
• NASA Turns to Lobsters to Help Locate the Sources of Gravitational Waves
• The Secrets of Gecko Tails Could Help Heal Human Spine Injuries
• Slime from This 300 Million-Year-Old Creature Could Create Bulletproof Body Armor
• Meet the Monster Whose Bite Is Saving Lives
• Jellyfish-Inspired E-Skin Glow…
Power to Go
• Ingenious New Sewage Treatment System Generates Electricity and Clean Water
• Waste Toilet Paper Could Produce Lots of Electricity
• World’s Largest Laser Could Solve Our Energy Problems
• Can a Carbon ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Save the Planet?
• DeepMind Wants to Find the Next Miracle material — Experts Just Don’t Know H…
Costume Creativity
• 4,626 People in Japan Set World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Waldo
• School Sets Record for Number of People Dressed Like Penguins
• Halloween 2017: The Costumes That Won the Internet
• Justin Trudeau Dressed as Clark Kent for Halloween and It Was Super, Man
• One Legged Athlete Josh …
Inspiration Is Where You Find It
• Gecko-Inspired Gripper May Soon Snag Space Junk
• A Better Touch Screen, Inspired by Moth Eyes
• Dancing Balls Lead to a Physics Discovery
• Snow-White Beach in Australia Is Made up of Billions of Cockle Shells
• Snail in the Coffin: Left-Coiling Mollusc Jeremy Dies after Finding Lov…
The Power of a Nudge
• A Nobel Prize Winner Says Tech Companies Are Misusing Creativity in Their Quest to Change the World
• What’s a Urinal Fly, and What Does It Have to with Winning a Nobel Prize?
• People Like Government ‘Nudges,’ Study Says
• The Flaws a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Wants You to Know about Yoursel…
Now That’s Clever
• People Share Their Kids’ Cleverest Inventions
• 5-Year-Old Puts Artwork Online at Ridiculous Prices But Still Sells Some!
• These 12-Year-Olds Have a Clever Solution to Stop Birds from Flying into Planes
• Dad Comes up with Ingenious Way to Keep Kids Quiet During Soccer on TV
• Dadbag, a Fanny Pack That…
Random Acts of Awe
• When Are You Really Random? After Age 24
• A Coin Toss Is Not as Random or Fair as It Seems
• When the Mind Wanders
• The Power of Being Bored
• Stop Being Boring When People Ask ‘So What Do You Do?’
• A Guide to Making More Time by Cultivating Everyday Awe
• Imagination Is Such an Ability It Might Precede Eve…
Playa Ukulele, Anyone?
• Emergency Playa Ukuleles
• Bonkers Human Centipede Race Against a Bull Looks Ridiculously High Risk
• Hide-And-Seek World Championship
• Hobby Horsing Around
• Want a Fun Party Game? Now ‘That’s a Question!’
• 27 Adorably Strange Birthday Party Themes Kids Have Chosen
• The Lost Origins of …
Around Town 1
• Driverless Shuttles Could Help Seniors Get around in Rural Japan
• Where Does ‘Taking Back Control’ Leave Our Shopping Streets? In Cloud Cuckoo Land
• One Italian City’s Ingenious Plan to Combat Xenophobia with Design
• Vending Machine Startup Hopes to Put Bodegas out of Business
Slime Doesn’t Pay
• Laser Beams Unveil Secrets Locked Inside Primitive Stone Spear Points
• New Study Reveals How the Neanderthals Made Super Glue 200,000 Years Ago: The World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Material
• Recreating the Glue Neanderthals Used to Make Weapons
• New Super-Glue Inspired by Slug Slim…