Imagine sitting out in the sun, reading a digital screen as thin as paper, but seeing the same image quality as if you were indoors. Thanks to research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, it could soon be a reality. A new type of reflective screen -- sometimes described as 'electronic paper' -- offers optimal color display, while using ambient light to keep energy consumption to a minimum.

A major component of IoT security-related crime is theft of live videos. See how easily live feeds can be broken into, and what to do about it.

A year after the pandemic canceled its signature tech and arts conference, SXSW, Austin...

Andrew Stych wrote a hilarious "written warning" to his cat Penelope who has been disrupting the workplace while he and his wife, Shiela, work from

Following breadcrumbs to find ourselves, in history and fiction

The Ancient Struggle for Homo Sapiens to Rule the Earth

Video games are all about escaping from reality. Now they’re being used to market real-life escapes.

After appearing in the religious art of ancient Iran, the disc halo migrated across cultures at an astonishing pace. Matt Wilson explores how it connects Jesus, Buddha and Apollo.

The Biden administration signaled it wants to overturn a rule change that upset artists and fueled worries about fewer dollars for protecting habitat.

Western maps, imbued with the history and power structures of colonialism, often erase Indigenous people and culture from their traditional lands. Now, Indigenous cartographers are countering that erasure by decolonizing maps, in Oregon and throughout the world.

The dramatic reenactment of Spanish soldiers executing Cuban rebels. Produced by the Edison company and designed to supplement actuality footage shot in Cuba.

A scientific dispute takes a violent, absurd turn.

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the contiguous United States

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As Henry Ford was to automobiles, and Thomas Edison was to electricity, Browning was to firearms, and his inventions had similar world-changing influence.

A stone sculpture of a pelican named Corson is among the dozens of Notre Dame artifacts that you can support.

What the pandemic has done to the arts. "What has been happening across the arts is not a recession. It is not even a depression. It is a catastrophe."