Soft robot tentacle can lasso an ant without harming it

The world’s most expensive coffee is made from beans eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung

Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning

City medical examiners are allowed to keep a person’s brain and organs, even if the family wants them back: court

Cognitive capacities for cooking in chimpanzees

Lots of animals consume alcohol but only humans do it to get drunk.

The best bonfires are roughly as tall as they are wide

Why So Many Robots Struggled With the DARPA Challenge More: A Transformer Wins DARPA’s $2 Million Robotics Challenge

LEGO didn’t want any of the players to endow its online world with penises.

Ad tech companies are knowingly selling “garbage” data to customers who are being blinded by the apparent need to load themselves with an endless supply of customer information

Jaw power (new patent)

Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History

A photo of Jackie Siegel clutching an iced drink and taking a selfie at her daughter’s funeral

New 3D printer grows solid objects out of liquid baths

every day the same again | June 12th, 2015