The $149 instrument was made in collaboration with viral musician Modern Biology. The $149 instrument was made in collaboration with viral musician Modern Biology. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He ...

A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a DIY kit, and [LOOK MUM NO ...

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has announced a new instrument called Orchid. Conceived by the producer extraordinaire over a decade ago, and developed by Telepathic Instruments, Orchid is an “advanced ...

This is Part 2 of a three-part series. As discussed in Part 1 and recapped here, modern wireless communications systems (mainly superheterodyne radio transceivers) are now required to deliver higher ...

Jen Keane’s claim to fame is that she grew a shoe using bacteria, coaxing the microbes to deposit their nanocellulose materials in the shape of a sneaker. But she’s kind of over that. “I feel like ...

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That milky blood is still gross, though. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The things this synthetic does in the name of science ...

The first time Ryan Shenvi played Wordle, when the popular word-guessing game was just taking off, he remembers thinking, “Oh, we should do this for retrosynthesis.” The La Jolla–based Scripps ...

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

For new, human-made heavy elements on the periodic table, being “too ‘big’ for your own good” often means instability and a fleeting existence. The more protons and neutrons scientists squeeze ...