Tag: STEM

In 2016, Nintendo started developing games designed specifically to be played on smartphones. Titles like Super Mario Run and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp have brought some of the world’s most lovable characters to our pockets without the tactical buttons or plastic, boxy devices we knew and loved. That might be changing, though, because Nintendo has submitted an application for a patent that would make your smartphone look and feel just like a Game Boy.

The patent application was filed this spring, and it describes a case that would fold over a smartphone, showcasing the classic rectangular Game Boy design. There’s a square cutout in the case which let the phone serve as the pseudo-handheld’s screen, and the buttons below it would be…

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Jason Momoa is ready to rule the Seven Seas, and there’s a bit of Indiana Jones in the new video as Aquaman and Mera seek answers.

At least that narrows things down a bit for a bizarre hole in the ground in Arkansas.

The deals available this weekend include several Cheapskate exclusives!

And it’ll do it with two fewer cylinders than everybody else.

Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out the big questions of why life exists, why it takes various shapes and sizes, and how life is able to amazingly adapt to fill every nook and cranny on Earth. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has discovered that the answers to these questions may lie in the ability of life to find a middle ground, balancing between robustness and adaptability.

Engineers have invented a semiconductor with organic and inorganic materials that can convert electricity into light very efficiently, and it is thin and flexible enough to help make devices such as mobile phones bendable.

New research has greatly magnified the body of evidence asserting that the pronouns we use foretell good relationship outcomes.

The discovery of a small molecule that plays an important part of the HIV life cycle may lead to the development of new treatments for the virus.

Researchers have discovered a solution in the form of a cancer vaccine platform for improving the efficacy of oncolytic viruses used in cancer treatment.