BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Volcanic eruptions are more common that you might think. Every few decades, land-based volcanoes blow their stacks and send fiery ash, ejecta, and debris skyrocketing into the air. Pompeii, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens are all…
Innovation
Doctors have created glasses that will eliminate minor colourblindness
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE Incredible glasses have been designed for people dealing with colour blindness to now have the chance to see colours they never could before. For the first time ever scientists have developed a method of turning what was…
Antimatter provides a peek into a hidden world
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS If you’ve ever seen a science-fiction movie in your lifetime, you’ve probably heard the word “antimatter.” Ever since its discovery, sci-fi writers of all kinds have populated their universes with antimatter blasters, antimatter drives, and antimatter…
Forget bike lanes, this city made an apartment for life entirely without cars
BY SAMANTHA TAPP While most cities are still working on perfecting their bike lanes, Malmö, Sweden is taking sustainable living to a whole new level. A new apartment building in the city doesn’t have any parking spaces, but instead was…
A new project aims to save the jaguar by moving them to habitats free from human interference
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Of all the predators in the world, it’s hard to deny that cats are some of the most effective and memorable carnivores. Almost every continent has at least one big cat roaming the forests, jungles, and…
Ancient clams have been holding the secrets of climate change for 1,000 years
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS What’s the lifespan of the longest-living animal? Humans can live for over a hundred years if we receive adequate care. Other mammals, such as the bowhead whale, can live for two hundred years; reptiles like the…
Scientists discovered what’s in the dust you sweep up every day
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Ever wonder why your meticulously clean furniture quickly develops a film of dust when left alone? Sometimes it seems as though you’ve only just put down the feather duster before you’re forced to take up arms…
Scientists accidentally caught this shark on film for the first time ever
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS How old is old? Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago. The first dog-like animals snuffled around about six million years ago. Fifty five million years ago, the oldest monkeys swung in the trees. Early…
The Solar Revolution is coming – Here’s what you need to know
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Little Orphan Annie famously opined that the sun would come out tomorrow – and now the age of the solar panel has finally dawned. In the coming years, expect to see more photovoltaic panel farms, more…
In less than 24 hours, this tiny house was built for only $10,000 using only a hex key
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Like most metropolitan cities, real estate in Beijing is expensive. So expensive that for young people moving out of their parents’ house, searching for a new apartment becomes a sad game of trying to find one close…
Building home expansions underground are growing in popularity. Are iceberg houses the future?
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS They may not be capable of sinking ocean liners, but they certainly have had a titanic effect on the housing market. “iceberg houses” have received a chilly reception from neighbours as this new architectural trend continues…
This Japanese airline is planning on using old clothing to fuel their planes
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP While animal activists and environmentalists alike are still reeling from the news that Japan closed its last fur farm, Japan is working on another project that is sure to have the same positive reaction from environmentalists and…
This American city is providing free food to its residents as the country’s first urban ‘Agrihood’
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI Once the home of Motown legends like Aretha Franklin, Detroit’s North End has had a rough ride since the days when the city was known as “the Paris of the West”. As the auto industry declined this bustling…
This man recycled over 1 million bottles and is using them to build the world’s first plastic bottle village
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Isla Colon in Bocas Del Toro, Panama, has a trash problem. When Robert Bezeau moved from Montreal to Panama in 2009 to escape the cold and live in an everyday paradise, the trash quickly caught his attention.…
Robot bees could successfully pollinate crops and save our food supply
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s a simple truth that humans need honeybees for survival. Without them, plants go un-pollinated and eventually over a third of our food sources will deplete and we’ll starve. It might sound grim, but it’s time to…
The world’s weirdest mammal could provide a new, effective treatment for diabetes
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS There’s no animal quite as memorable as the platypus. This slippery, aquatic holdover from the age of the dinosaurs sports an infamously improbable array of anatomical features that set it apart from just about every other…
Meet the Hyperloop: The future of high-speed travel
BY: PHILIIPPE DE JOCAS It’s hard to remember that, at one point, rail travel constituted the height of mobility; the iron horse and its kingdom of rails dominated the world’s transit scene for the better part of a century. But…
If you’ve always wanted to join the mile high club, there’s an app for that
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Love is in the air. You no longer have to be travelling with a partner to join the mile high club thanks to the new app, AirDates. The app, which is basically the Tinder for the sky, will…
New app lets you buy restaurant leftovers for under $5
BY: AISHA ILYAD You may ask yourself what on Earth restaurants do with their leftover meals? There are many types of food that don’t last for more than a day and are useless after one night. “Food for all” and…
This guy created a step-by-step guide to creating your own Earthship
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Earthships, created by architect Mike Reynolds, are completely environment-friendly houses built with both natural and recycled materials that are constructed for minimal reliance on public utilities or fossil fuels. The homes are built with tires, bottles, and…