Soft Robotics’ air-driven grippers can gently pick and place objects like cupcakes.Soft RoboticsSoft Robotics’ air-driven grippers can gently pick and place objects like cupcakes.Soft RoboticsThe octopus is unique among animals in that it can essentially turn itself into liquid, Terminator style. Get yourself a 600-pound octopus and leave it unsupervised and the thing will squeeze…

Smell that pumpkin spice in the air? That means the fall is coming, and with it, new action cameras.GoPro—aka the Band-Aid/Kleenex/Q-Tips of action cameras—is here with the latest entry in its category-defining camera platform, the Hero7 Black. I’ve spent the last few weeks banging around (and getting banged up) with it, and while it feels…

Whether you’re pounding the pavement or cheering your friends on, we have the gear for you.The time has come. All summer, you and your friends have been running through tropical storms, triple-digit temperatures, and wildfire smoke. Now all that grueling work is finally paying off, and race season has begun! You can now breathe in…

I could live without worms slinking along sidewalks after a heavy rain or feeding on people’s digestive tracts. But not everyone is so unsettled by the limbless grubs. A team at Princeton University has developed a comprehensive view of adult roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans‘ gene activity. An ideal subject for biological study, the millimeter-long transparent nematode…

Red Dead Online Beta Launches in November This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re not too far from Red Dead Redemption 2‘s October 26 release date. Based on everything we’ve seen so far, it looks like another hit from Rockstar Games. Like its predecessor and Grand…

Ryan Coogler Refresher: Get to Know Black Panther’s Director This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. After being first willed into existence two years ago, famous follow-up to beloved but bad 1990s basketball movie Space Jam is getting even closer to actually existing. Instead of Michael Jordan,…