Scientific discovery doesn’t always require a high-tech laboratory or a hefty budget. Many people have a first-rate lab right in their own homes – their kitchen. The kitchen offers plenty of ...

Two MIT researchers are working on creating "smart sand," a system in which people can bury a small object, then, moments later, pull out a 3D duplicate of that object, created out of the particles.

A pair of ribbons is freighted with enormous significance in Blake Hackler’s “What We Were,” a play filled with objects that are strikingly evocative of specific memories — a few of them happy, most ...

Some artists don’t just photograph the world around them; they bend it into something completely unexpected. Portuguese photographer and visual artist Hugo Suíssas has a way of turning streets, ...

It’s only been a few months since the catastrophic Camp Fire in Paradise. This segment is about loss and memory and how objects take on meaning and significance. Artist Stephanie Taylor talks about ...

A 3D-printing technique can incorporate invisible tags into objects. The process could be used to create tags with the convenience of QR codes without the unsightly appearance, as well as to turn ...

Why would a trained astronaut take months to relearn how to handle objects after a trip back from Earth orbit? According to a new strand of research, the answer has little to do with weakness per se.

Scientists have developed a robotic prosthetic hand that offers precision fingertip control. The ultra-light system offers shape-adaptive gripping through simple motion commands. Using an innovative ...