BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Want to combine music with your body art? Now it’s possible, thanks to a Moscow-based artist. Dmitry Morozov, who describes himself as a “media-artist, musician and engineer of strange-sounding mechanisms,” has created a machine that plays music…
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NASA has begun planning the first manned mission to Mars
BY: TED BARNABY NASA has released plans to embark on two incredible landmark missions in the upcoming future: landing humans on an asteroid by 2025, and on Mars in the 2030s. Mars is a planet, which has long captured the…
Zero-point energy generators create free unlimited energy without fuel
Zero-point energy is the lowest form of energy in a physical mechanical system, remaining constant when all other energy is absent. This combats previous definitions of the vacuum, as space devoid of matter, re-defining the black space of the universe…
A neuroscientist invents a program that allows you to send emails after you’re dead
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS “If I could just hear their voice one last time,” we often think to ourselves in the wake of a loved one’s death. Unfortunately, the rise of social media has introduced a whole new level of tragedy—the…
Graphene is a newly-discovered material that could replace plastic, steel, rubber and medicine.
BY: TJ MOREY With the advent of humans and the decline of humanity, we seem to have become our own Nostradamus—prophesying the doom of this planet we call home. Luckily, there are still individuals optimistic and innovative enough to (hopefully)…
The first household 3D printers are self-replicating
BY: TED BARNABY We’ve seen Google Glass, solar power roadways and the Oculus Rift, but when it comes to holy-shit-we’re-in-the-future gadgets, 3D printing is likely the most eligible of the new technologies. Ever since the release of the first 3D…
The Drake Equation calculates the inevitable probability of extraterrestrial life
BY: TED BARNABY Accelerating space technology and our present understanding of the universe make it increasingly difficult for people to deny the existence of extraterrestrial life. Whether alien contact has actually been made is a completely different can of worms…
The world’s largest solar farm has nine million panels and is the size of a suburb
BY: TED BARNABY Over the last two years, nine million solar panels have been laid out across the California desert, constituting the world’s largest solar farm at nine and a half square miles in total. The Topaz Solar Farm, owned…
This video game is designed to draw real blood from players
BY SINEAD MULHERN Jonathon Root and James Jarvis are testing out a new (and extreme) form of gaming that they think can be put towards a good cause. In a nutshell, they have hooked up an intravenous blood collector machine…
In 2018, New York City will get the world’s first underground park
BY: TED BARNABY New York continues to perpetuate its self-claimed tittle as “greatest city in the world” with the construction of the world’s first underground park. The underground park—complete with sunlight, trees, grass and all natural green space—is rising from…
In less than five seconds, this man’s rocket bike reached speeds of over 200 miles per hour
BY: SINEAD MULHERN François Gissy’s bike is a rocket-driven speed demon fast enough to make even the most fearless stunt-doubles squirm. The 32 year-old former bus driver’s bike just set a new world record when it hit a speed of…
When you die this mushroom suit will stop your body from polluting the planet
BY: TED BARNABY Most of us at one point or another have debated our own burial ceremony. Do we want to go six feet under, or be burned and set off into the atmosphere in a cloud of black smoke?…
At 20, Boyan Slat is developing a device to remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from our oceans
BY: DEXTER BROWN Slat’s ambitious quest started on a Greek scuba diving trip when he was only 16. “I saw more plastic bags than fish,” the Dutch engineering student told the BBC. “Everyone said to me: ‘Oh there’s nothing you can do about plastic…
New Alzheimer’s test can detect the disease a decade before clinical diagnosis
BY: SINEAD MULHERN New research can help predict Alzheimer’s disease in a patient ten years before a clinical diagnosis. By predicting the disease this early, people can start treating it well ahead of time. In the study, led by Dimitrios…
The world’s first biodegradable drone is made out of fungus and wasp saliva
BY: SINEAD MULHERN A new environmentally friendly drone technology is designed to disintegrate when entering sensitive ecological areas. It’s made out of fungus, coated with wasp saliva and looks a bit like a disposable coffee tray. A group of 15…
This 23-year-old New Yorker hasn’t produced any trash in over 2 years
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Want to ditch all that garbage you’ve been sending to the landfills? That’s what New Yorker Lauren Singer, 23, took on three years ago. Today she lives a trash free life. She has even started a company…
Mysticism, meditation and… videogames? Indie game developer Kara Stone reimagines gaming
BY: MICHAEL LYONS I was marginally involved with Toronto-based feminist game making initiative, Dames Making Games, when a tweet from Kara Stone graced my feed in late May. “WHO WANTS TO PLAY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS WITH ME? IT’S FOR RESEARCH…
A newly-constructed Japanese train travels 500km/hr by levitating above the tracks
BY: PILGRIM Japan recently constructed a train that travels at 500km/hr (311mph) by floating above the tracks using magnetic levitation—and it’s about to be opened for public use. The first 100 people ever recently had the opportunity to ride the…
Researchers have developed a process to convert algae into crude oil in under an hour
BY: EMMA MCINTOSH Turning algae into crude oil is a process that is so inexpensive that the fuel could be sold for as low as $2 per gallon, according to a study done by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that…
Neil Harbisson Is A Colour-Blind Artist Who Can Hear The Sound Of Colour
BY: PILGRIM Neil Harbisson is a British-born artist who was born with one major creative disadvantage: he’s colour blind. Luckily, Harbisson was able to rectify this unfortunate artistic drawback with the help of technology. Harbisson is the first person to…