Cramming a full terabyte of storage onto a microSD card the size of a baby fingernail is a remarkable feat, but when it comes to cost and reliability, magnetic tape is still the preferred method for archiving data for decades. And even as hard drives continue to swell in size,…
Attaching a tracking collar to a polar bear is hard enough. But it’s all the more challenging because eventually researchers have to remove it, too. So Polar Bears International reached out to 3M to see if the company, known for its expertise in making things stick, could come up with…
Ever since cameras first existed people have been pointing the lens at themselves to snap so-called selfies — a term first coined back in 2002. At this point they’re long overdue for an upgrade, so a team of researchers have created what could be the next-generation of selfies: easy to…