Fungus-Infected Violin Beats Stradivarius in Listening Test | Popular Science

Fungus-Infected Violin Beats Stradivarius in Listening Test | Popular Science. Apparently you can replicate the sound of a Stradivarius violin by infecting wood with a special fungus, and then using it to make violins. Should make high quality violins cheaper, even if blind listening tests are bound to be subjective. Anyway, another article of mine […]

Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms | Popular Science

Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms | Popular Science. My first article for PopSci.com, about Microbots, the possible future of robotics. The researchers developed a way to quickly make tiny, cheap, mass-produced robots. Individually they’re simple, but if each one can communicate and collect data, together they might be able to mimic certain insects like ants, […]