Monthly Archive: August 2018
Loz Blain – ALLight keeps your headlight level when you lean the bike over (Credit: ALLight). The ALLight guys didn’t manage to get their self-leveling motorcycle headlight bulb over the line in their first crowdfunding attempt, but they’re back, and this time …
by Scotty Hendricks – A hunger stone made visible by a low water level. (Photo: Norbert Kaiser / Creative Commons). It’s been a long, hot summer. Blazing new heat records were set across the globe; Scandinavia was particularly scorched, the United States endured …
James Holloway – Maybe bees were onto something, with all those hexagons. A new beehive system made up of a series of hexagonal prisms may be just what your bees need. The Honeycomb Hives system is designed to tackle bee colony losses …
All those tiny discs add up. By Sarah Sloat – Every day, 45 million Americans stuff slivers of flexible plastic into their eyes, hoping to look less like nerds. While contacts-wearers become quite adept at poking them into place, a new study from …
by Reuben Jackson – Bitcoin Mining on the Blockchain | by Flickr user Descryptive, Creative Commons. Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm. Between January 2017 and December 2017, the price of Bitcoin rose by over 2,000%—from $953 to $20,089. Right now, the …
Michael Irving – New research shows how ash from volcanic eruptions could trigger drastic climate shifts, as was the case in 1816 (Credit: Byelikova/Depositphotos). The year 1816 was a weird one, climatically speaking. Months that would normally be warm and pleasant were …
Michael Irving – A scanning electron microscope of the new battery anode: left containing asphalt, graphene nanoribbons and lithium, while the right image only contains the asphalt and graphene (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University). As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing …
by Derek Beres – Photo: Mint Images / Getty Images. The emergence of probiotics on supermarket shelves is further proof of our habit of putting the cart before the horse. Researchers discover a potential breakthrough; the public gain a little knowledge of …
by Mike Colagrossi – An asteroid of approximate size of a minimoon, c/o NASA. For nearly four billion years, Earth and the Moon have been inseparable as they’ve journeyed together through the cosmic void. It’s our only permanent satellite we’ll ever know. But …
by Paul Ratner – Credit: Arkady Mgdsyan/Youtube. For all its flaws, the Internet can be a source of wondrous things and one such curiosity has been a resurfacing video of a man passing his hand through molten metal without getting hurt. Some …
