Want to feel fancy with a big, square cube of perfectly clear ice in your glass? We tested the Neat Ice Kit.
Space photos are more than pretty pictures. They represent humanity’s eternal need to explore and discover, to answer the ageless question, “Why?” Each photo is a wonder, and raises more questions than it answers.
Check out the most dazzling space photos of 2015.
Getting from A to B has never been more exciting than it was in 2015. We’ve got the best transportation stories of the year for you.
It was a good year for finding stuff out and our favorite science stories all revealed something about the universe.
2015 showed that the Internet is a dangerous place. Whether it’s your cellular-connected car or personal details on an adulterous dating website, no one seems safe anymore.
It’s been a good year for gear heads, so we’ve put together our top 5 gadgets of 2015.
It seems like you get the same flavor of Entertainment ice cream year after year: There’s a Marvel movie, a killer narrative TV show, maybe a breakout artist. But 2015 was… different.
That Hawaiian sand between your toes isn’t just ground-up rock. In fact, very little of it is. The vast majority came out of this Absurd Creature, the parrotfish.
The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum—a former steel factory in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, that overlooks Lake Michigan—evokes an era when industrial manufacturing reigned supreme. Inside the museum transports you to a time of pounding machines, toxic inks and shellac, sawdust and wood chips, with workers bent over cases of typefaces.
The Hamilton is a working museum, where first-time visitors and longtime patrons alike can get their hands dirty. It is, in short, heaven on Earth for today’s artisanal printers, typographers, and graphic designers, most of whom were weaned on clean and quiet digital tools.
Read more about the museum.
Scissors. Cigarette lighters. Car airbags. Pool cues. And of course, guns, knives, bombs, and other weapons. The TSA has a long list of things you can’t bring onto a commercial flight these days.
If you’ve taken a plane (or follow the TSA on Instagram), you’ve probably wondered how the airport security officers who scan carry-on bags watch for all those threats simultaneously. You’ve probably pondered how well you’d do the job. Simulscan, an Italian company that offers computer-based x-ray screening training, provided an inside look at the screening process when it gave us these photos.