The looks are softer and more varied. The looks are softer and more varied. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. In ...

So far, five Google icons have undergone gradient updates. 9to5Google can now report on a complete gradient redesign for Gmail and other Google Workspace apps. Google is addressing a major criticism ...

Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without ...

Sea urchin spines are not only for defence—they also act as natural sensors. A research team led by Prof. WANG Zuankai, Associate Vice President (Research and Innovation), Dean of Graduate School, ...

Whether bumps or pits, roughness or a distinct lack of luminosity, uneven skin texture impacts all of us at some point. For which, “how to get rid of skin texture” is a question regularly fielded by ...

A Nature study reports that the biomineralized spines of the long-spined sea urchin Diadema setosum can generate measurable electrical signals when struck by droplets or exposed to flowing seawater.

Communications and Institutional Research Office, City University of Hong Kong A research team led by Professor Lu Jian, Dean of the College of Engineering and Chair Professor in the Department of ...

Nature does it again! The natural world has a knack for giving us the blueprints for some useful technologies, and the humble sea urchin is the latest contributor. Scientists have designed a new class ...

If you slipped under the covers at 2am, knowing your alarm was set for 6am, how do you think you would feel the next morning? You may be imagining a day of aching eyes and clouded thoughts, but it is ...

At 3,000 metres above sea level the air tastes different. Not metaphorically — literally. The thinness of the atmosphere alters how aromas rise, how bubbles burst, how syrups coat the palate, and how ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today, instead of our usual news roundup, I’m here to introduce you to our new interim host. I’m ...