A few months ago, The New York Times sent a photographer to South Korea to photograph the world’s largest floating object. It took him hundreds of shots to capture the behemoth. Now, its makers are ...

You know those really cool floating objects in ads? They’re all dissected, and you think, “How did they do that?” Well, we know how they do it, so for this week’s Shooting Challenge, some Gizmodo ...

A new approach to invisibility cloaking may one day be used at sea to shield floating objects – such as oil rigs and ships – from rough waves. Unlike most other cloaking techniques that rely on ...

Michael Shats receives funding from The Australian National University. You would normally expect objects that float in water to move in the same direction as waves. But now we can force floating ...

More than 2 000 years ago, Roman fishermen already used the natural propensity of some species of fish to gather under floating objects, to enhance their catches in the Mediterranean. Today, numerous ...

When Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed with what he saw — more than 500 new stars in the constellation ...