The Table Football set is smaller than a competition foosball table, but it’s still fully functional. The Lego Group has done a ton of intricate, video game-themed Lego sets in the last couple of years, from 2020’s NES-and-TV replica to the love letter to Super Mario 64 to the detailed re-creation of the Atari 2600. But if…
The clever folks at Adafruit tested their Cheekmate chess-cheating prototype by embedding it in a slab of pork butt. The Internet has been abuzz for weeks about a particularly juicy chess cheating controversy that erupted last month. The reigning chess world champion, Magnus Carlsen, lost in the third round to a 19-year-old upstart, Hans Niemann,…
Enlarge / The Crew-5 mission launches from Kennedy Space Center on October 5, 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) Four days before Thanksgiving in 2002, space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Among the seven crew members to the International Space Station was one Russian cosmonaut, Nikolai M. Budarin, making his third spaceflight. By…
Enlarge (credit: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach) This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a little unusual in that it recognizes three things: a conceptual approach to building complicated molecules, a chemical reaction that exemplifies that concept, and an application of the concept to biological systems. As a result, it’s a three-person award, with…
Enlarge / Is knowing how to build a molecule like this out of simple materials really needed for someone to practice medicine? (credit: Theasis) Over the weekend, news broke that a well-regarded professor who taught chemistry at New York University had been fired after students complained about their grades, his teaching, and the support they…
Enlarge / Chairs for people who want to be vaccinated stand in the waiting room at the Mainz Vaccination Center. Currently, demand for COVID-19 booster vaccinations at vaccination centers and doctors’ offices is low. (credit: Getty | picture alliance) The dreaded winter COVID wave may already be upon us—and based on early signs, we may…
Enlarge / A 3D illustration of the HIV virus. (credit: Westend61 / Getty) In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to snip the AIDS-causing virus out of his cells. For an hour, he was hooked up to an IV bag that pumped the…
Enlarge / This Kiwibot robot is waiting to be loaded with my muffin. Afterward, a worker carried it across the street on the scooter. (credit: Timothy B. Lee) I’d been following the robot for about five minutes when it seemed to get hopelessly lost. The four-wheeled vehicle, the size and shape of a large cooler,…
Enlarge / The Czinger 21C features tandem seating and a 3.5:1 lift-to-drag ratio. (credit: Rolex/Tom O’Neal) BMW provided flights from DC to San Francisco and back, plus five nights in a hotel, so we could attend Monterey Car Week in August. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MONTEREY, Calif.—Perhaps the coolest thing I saw at…
We think you’ll be as amazed as we are by the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October…