The drone can arrive to the struggling swimmer before the lifeguard and drop an inflatable device to keep the swimmer afloat until the lifeguard arrives.

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We have seen this guy unbox a magnet before but this time he has an even bigger one.
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Here are a few of the other senses your kindergarten teacher (and Aristotle) left out.

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In Crawfordsville, Indiana, there’s a rotary jail: an invention that, with hindsight, should probably never have been built. But it was, here and in other towns across the United States. It might have sounded like a good idea on paper, but in practice, it had a few unfortunate problems… including occasional accidental amputations.

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Drawing a roadmap to combat the spread of deserts worldwide. It’s the mission of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in the Inner Mongolian city of Erdos. The host country, China, was praised for a law it passed in 2002 — the world’s first integrated law dedicated to combating desert expansion. With this goal in mind, China has carried out several projects that have been successful, including at one desert in northern China.
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The age of batteries is just getting started. In the latest episode of our animated series, Sooner Than You Think, Bloomberg’s Tom Randall does the math on when solar plus batteries might start wiping fossil fuels off the grid.

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You might want to hold off on sending your family’s secret chili recipe across the internet to your family member who lives out of state. Researchers are working on a way to harness quantum weirdness to send information super securely!

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While the Concorde is hailed as a triumph of modern engineering, the first supersonic transport to ever fly was actually Soviet-built. The Tupolev TU-144 flew even faster than the Concorde and it carried more passengers. What happened to this aircraft and why have so few heard about it?

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With worldwide traffic projected to triple by 2021, we examine the near-term future of Internet Infrastructure—from 5G to prefabricated data centers to robotically-maintained server farms.

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Panasonic unveiled the prototype for Ku, a voice-activated fridge which uses LIDAR and depth sensors to navigate a home when called.
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The universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast, apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there’s one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. But is there such thing as a total absence of everything? Is it possible to make a completely empty space? Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat explain the science behind vacuums.

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A new material inspired by mussels may be the key to fillings and crowns that never break or fall out.

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The WaterBOB is an emergency drinking water container that goes right in your bathtub. Just fill it up using your bathtubs faucet, and it will hold up to 100 gallons of fresh drinking water that will stay good for up to 12 weeks. The WaterBob is perfect for emergencies and disasters where you might not have access to fresh water. Great to just have in the house just in case. Use it for hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, zombie apocalypses and more.

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Could you change or see someone’s memories? Should this technology even exist?

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The phenomenon is called the Fujiwhara effect. Named for Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara, who originally described it in 1921. If two cyclones pass within 900 miles of each other, they can start to orbit. What happens next depends on the size of each storm.

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