Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

Your phone is essentially a portable petri dish. Think about everywhere you take it-the gym, the kitchen, and yes, the bathroom-and then consider that it spends half its life pressed against your face ...

On a flip phone, your messages pop up on the little cover screen. You get to peek and decide if it’s worth opening. Got a ...

The “Home Alone” movies turned holiday travel chaos into comedy. Scenes of the McCallister family sprinting through a crowded terminal still resonate as the ...

The Justice Department has released records from the Epstein files, the first documents to come to light under a new law ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Turning paper on a lathe sounds impossible, but the results are astonishing. This project puts the limits of craftsmanship to the test by compressing, gluing, and shaping stacked sheets of paper as ...

Gen Z is ditching digital overload by turning iPhones into “dumb phones”—here’s how to do it without losing essentials.

But I’ve found that whenever I return to color, even briefly, I am desperate to turn it off again as quickly as possible.

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A simple paper plane design that flies smoothly and stays in the air longer, demonstrating basic folds and airflow principles for better flight performance.

If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla. The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half.