Skydiving is an extremely exciting hobby and of course the focus of the whole sport is to safely “nail” the landing. With modern ram-air (square) parachutes, one can control the landing quite ...

A friend of mine, an intelligent highly regarded science journalist, recently decided to cancel a vacation to Puerto Rico with his wife and kids. Because of concern about Zika virus. Another friend, ...

Could teaching kids how robots are used in the real world create a new generation of designers to build revolutionary machines? That’s the idea behind a new study of children’s perceptions of robots.