Monthly Archive: November 2018
Rich Haridy – $10,000 will reserve you a limited edition Hoverbike (Credit: Hoversurf). After first spotting this crazy looking motorcycle-styled hoverbike in early 2017, we were skeptical the contraption would ever move beyond just an odd engineering curiosity. However, Russian company Hoversurf …
By Richard Arghiris – Image courtesy Crazy Horse Memorial. “Upon suffering beyond suffering,” said Crazy Horse in 1877, describing his final vision to Chief Sitting Bull. “The Red Nation shall rise again, and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A …
Famous physicists like Richard Feynman think 137 holds the answers to the Universe. By Paul Ratner – The fine structure constant has mystified scientists since the 1800s. The number 1/137 might hold the clues to the Grand Unified Theory. Relativity, electromagnetism and quantum …
The concept was likened to a porch light in our little neighborhood of the galaxy. By Brandon A. Weber – It could be the thing that makes an intelligent alien civilization stop and look at us further. It’s surprisingly not all that difficult …
Ben Coxworth – The longer a coffee is roasted, the higher its level of phenylindanes (Credit: AlekseyPatsyuk/Depositphotos). For years, scientists have suspected that drinking coffee helps lessen the chances of getting Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. A new study indicates that this may indeed …
Loz Blain – The 2020 Harley-Davidson Livewire is designed for urban riding. It’s looking more and more like Harley’s only hope is to branch out into new segments in search of a replacement for its withering customer base, and the 2020 Livewire represents …
Michael Irving – A new study has found that human activity is dissolving the seafloor (Credit: tomisl.z/Depositphotos). Excess carbon dioxide isn’t just building up in the atmosphere – the oceans are holding onto more of the stuff too, fizzing them up like …
Ben Coxworth – An electrode network (branched pattern) and cyanobacteria (spiral pattern) were 3D-printed onto the mushroom (Credit: American Chemical Society). Could your home one day be powered by patches of mushrooms? Probably not, but scientists have nonetheless created a “bionic mushroom” that …
Michael Irving – Researchers have traced back the evolutionary history of the cocoa tree to a single domestication event 3,600 years ago (Credit: studioM/Depositphotos). It’s kind of hard to imagine life today without chocolate, and now we have a better idea of who …
Loz Blain – 2019 Ducati Panigale V4R: runs advanced wheelie control, so this is clearly on purpose (Credit: Ducati). Ducati has just debuted the most extreme petrol-powered supersport bike in history on the eve of EICMA in Milan. The new king …
