In the fight against malaria, plenty of kooky ideas have been proposed. This one wins the prize for over-the-top craziness, hands-down.

DARPA has been funding superhero-inspired technology for years now, so it’s no surprise that they’ve teamed up withresearchers at Cornell to create a futuristic palm-sized Spiderman-type device that will allow humans to scale walls, walk across ceilings,

The simple childhood pastime of blowing bubbles might be a lot more complex than previously thought. A group of Harvard graduate studentsrecently took a closer look at bursting bubblesand realized that there is a whole new side to the end of a bubble’s li

Your Swiss Army knife may soon look more like a folding napkin than a bulky piece of metal in your pocket. A team at MIT and Harvard recently developed self-folding fiberglass sheets, only as thick as a human hair, that can can fold themselves into any nu