High-Class Sweets Made With Tools Intended For Chandeliers

The art of making candy will forever be associated with the dark whimsy of Willy Wonka’s magical factory, but a recent exhibition held during Vienna’s Design Week put a sweetly sophisticated spin on the process.

Our Favorite iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to the new Apps of the Week, where we give you all the cool apps we came across in one place. Android folks, iOS folks, and Windows Phone folks, now you can all come together and live in peace, sharing in the joy that is a cool new app.

Now Availabe: GoPro Hero 3+, Libratone Loop, Windows 8.1 and More

Hear that? It's the weekend, barreling down the tracks of time. Let's stop that metaphor right there before we all start reflecting on the meaning of existence, and instead focus on the gadgets that went on sale this week! From the new to the newly-revamped to the somewhat puzzling, this week brought plenty of gizmos to consider. Stop wasting your life and read on!

Most Beautiful Items: September 27 - October 4, 2013

Need some beautiful things to gaze upon at the end of a long week? How about photos of the restoration of an 138-year-old Brooklyn bank? Or a lighting pavilion that looks like it's alive? Or a massive Lego calendar that syncs with your smartphone? These things and more wonders from the worlds of design, art, and architecture are the most beautiful items of the week.

9 Winning Super Structures From The World Architecture Festival

The annual World Architecture Festival is about more than just awards: attendees can check out a pretty packed line-up of talks and crits, browse galleries and installations, and hob-nob with fellow folks in the biz from students to bold-named stars.

How Much Do You Care When Things Start Getting Ads?

Instagram is getting ads! Tumblr already got 'em. Snapchat probably will. Ads are starting to appear in the Android Gmail app too. Basically, anything and everything you use will eventually have ads on them. That's how the world spins. And that's something you have to deal with. So how much do you care when things you use start getting ads?

11 Tech and Science Programs Being Killed by the Government Shutdown

Unless you've been horrifyingly oblivious to absolutely everything happening around you, you know that the government has been in a state of shutdown since Monday. Other than the confirmation that, yes, congress is just as inept and impotent as we all thought, you probably haven't noticed much of a change in your daily life. But don't let that fool you. This period of stasis could have some major detrimental impacts, particularly in the fields of science and tech. Here are some of the shutdown's worst potential scientific casualties.