In the future, biologists and chemists want to avoid using bulky glass flasks, Bunsen burners and magnetic stirrers as far as possible in their experiments. Similarly to microelectronics, where ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle 21313 set was released earlier this year to much acclaim. Today, ...

It helps to have a pianist’s fingers, a surgeon’s delicacy and a kindergarten teacher’s patience. And even then it might not go smoothly. “My first one ended up in the trash,” Glenn Braun said.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Clever artisans have been building bottled boats since the 1800s, using either long-handled tools or folding mast and sail trickery to create striking ...

Before there were Lego, a model hobbyist's toughest challenge was creating a ship in a bottle. Now, you can mix together the old and the new. Jake Sadovich's Ship in a Bottle: Flagship Leviathan is ...

Ever so often Roxi Roy, who crafts ships in bottles, comes across people who ask him how he got the tall vessel into the narrow neck of its glass container. The art of creating miniature ships inside ...

Ships come in many shapes and sizes—including ones that fit in bottles. No one knows this better than Jim Goodwin, a retired geologist who for 25 years has been perfecting the maritime tradition of ...

Remote-controlled with a magnetic field, aggregates of plastic particles on a microchip function like stirrers and pumps. Sometimes physicists resort to tried and trusted model-making tricks.

This release is available in German. Sometimes physicists resort to tried and trusted model-making tricks. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and ...