Against the bakery's gleaming wall of tiles, huge loaves of bread lie on racks like failed pottery experiments. But it's the consistent shape that tells me I'm too harsh in my aesthetic judgment. The ...

A tiny robot weighing barely an ounce can launch itself more than 100 feet into the air, nearly 10 times the previous record. It accelerates past 62 mph in just 9 milliseconds and withstands more than ...