Before you hop on a boat on a trip to the coast of California armed with your Pokémon Go, you have to know that this “googly-eyed stubby squid” is not a rare Pokémon monster. I know, it does look like one and if it was, I wouldn’t want to imagine […]
When we think longevity in creatures that roam the Earth, we often perceive tortoise as the animal that is widely known to live up to 200 years or more, or some folks who lived up in the mountains who managed a little over a century. However, little do we know […]
While SpaceX, Blue Origin, and the like are busy working on reusable rockets that will eventually lead to future space travel, a private firm has been approved to travel beyond Earth’s orbit, into space, and land on the Moon in 2017. Moon Express, Inc., the first approved private entity, won’t […]
Sometimes, research papers can be overly monotonous owning to their excruciating detailed analysis and reporting. That’s exactly how we feel whenever we read materials of such, but this one paper by Eli M. Samat, Georg Fischer and Evan P. Economo on the discovery of some new species of ants, entitled […]
You know how some people said (some) beers taste like piss? Well, I can tell those people knows nothing, because clearly those beers aren’t made of urine, but then again, they could have drank this lager called From Sewer to Brewer which, if you haven’t get it from its name, […]
Iron Man exoskeleton suit is not an impossibility, but to defy gravity and zip across the sky like the fictional superhero, we all know is pure sci-fi fantasy. Based on the technology known to mankind today, there’s no way that a suit like such can harness enough thrust to propel […]
The quest for energy storage has never stopped and more so now that we are even more reliant on this form of energy than ever before. And this quest has resulted in the development of liquid flow batteries in the 70s and though groundbreaking at that point, this battery technology […]
While people are questioning the reliability of self-driving cars, another group of folks are working relentlessly to develop autonomous delivery vehicle. The most prominent would be Amazon with its rather audacious drone delivery system and then there’s Domino Pizza Australia more down-to-earth, land-going pizza delivery drone. As it turns out, […]
The car of the future will likely have spherical wheels which are omnidirectional like what Goodyear has envisioned. That’s the future for sure. However, mankind is not going to sit around and wait for it to happen in the future; in fact, some folks have been working on omnidirectional wheels […]
Forget about Bugatti Veyron, or the even the Suzuki GSX-R1000, because as of today, the world’s fastest accelerating car is an electric car developed by the Formula Student Team which comprises of students of the ETH Zurich and Lucerne University. The car, which is supported by BMW Group, set the […]
Remember Boston Dynamics’ Spot? The robotic ‘dog’ that refuses to be kicked over? Well, it has a junior now. Obviously, it can’t actually give birth to one, but the roboticists over at Boston Dynamics has created a smaller, fully electrical-powered version that’s quieter which makes it more suited as a […]