“Rope and knots are the building blocks of civilization. They pervade all aspects of our world.” By Ferris Jabr.

How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches. By Hunter Oatman-Stanford.

As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking toward the margins of tech to find the people keeping older machines alive and running.

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.

Right off the bat, Michael Burtov said he and his team at technology startup GeoOrbital did not re-invent the wheel. But, in a sense, they did. By Ben Gruber.

Anything to avoid snapping apart in remote stretches of the Indian Ocean.

Lontra's Blade Compressor replaces traditional piston parts and makes engines up to 20% more efficient.