Lizzie Schiffman

Spoiler: a lot of other planets smell like farts.

Probably not. Even when it’s nipping at our toes, wireless electricity is pretty safe. In 1899, Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla...

Cats get seasonal allergies to pollen and grass, and some have year-round allergies to fleas and dust mites. Sandy Willis,...

Remote-control jets have never performed particularly well. Their engines are less efficient than exposed propellers at an R/C plane’s speed,...

The final frontier smells a lot like a Nascar race—a bouquet of hot metal, diesel fumes and barbecue. The source?...

Streptomyces coelicolor, a soil-dwelling bacterium, has one of the best-understood genomes in its genus. Even so, a computational analysis of...

Volcanic eruptions aren’t just violent; they’re incredibly fast, often leaving people no time to flee. Here, a rescue worker walks...

Addiction therapists turn to Second Life for help reaching patients

Since their introduction into hospitals, robots have sliced up and sponge-bathed humans across the globe. Now they’re set to automate...

This new Microsoft Kinect hack might have the most appeal for the DARPA set. Researchers at the Hybrid Systems Laboratory...