T-1000’s: Scientists Create Self-Powered Liquid Metal

In great news for people who have always dreamed of dying in the hands of cold metal robots, scientists have successfully created self-powered liquid metal. The metal, which is a combination of gallium, tin and indium, can propel itself…

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Netflix stuffed its video service into an NES cartridge

Netflix’s experimental Hack Days often lead to wonderfully off-the-wall projects, but its latest might have produced the best example yet. Engineers Guy Cirino, Carenina Motion and Alex Wolfe have whipped up DarNES, a hack that turns the original Nin…

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Hermit Crabs Line Up By Size to Exchange Shells

Anyone with an older brother or sister knows that clothes “shopping” often meant begrudgingly sifting through hand-me-downs rather than perusing the latest fashions at the mall.
But for hermit crabs, the hand-me-down system isn’t second-best, it’s a matter of life and death. And as a new clip from the BBC show Life Story shows, the swapping process is remarkably orderly. Constantly Renovating
Hermit crabs need shells: without them, the critters will bake under the sun’s punishing rays,

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