Monthly Archive: January 2019
The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.” By Scotty Hendricks – A new report by Oxfam argues that wealth inequality is causing poverty and misery around the world. In the last year, the world’s billionaires saw …
By Adam Williams – – The Beijing Daxing International Airport (aka Beijing New Airport) terminal, led by Zaha Hadid Architects, is one of the amazing projects due to be completed in 2019. (Credit: Zaha Hadid Architects). 2018 was an outstanding year for architecture, but 2019 is …
By Michael Irving – – Researchers have found evidence that chaos theory – best known through the “butterfly effect” – plays a big role in the immune system. (Credit: agsandrew/Depositphotos). The immune system is incredibly complex, but most of us would probably …
By Michael Irving – A new breed of medical micro-robots made to explore the human body can automatically adapt to the different environments in there. (Credit: EPFL/ETHZ). It’s looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling …
By Nick Lavars – Scientists are calling for the global population to move towards a more plant-based diet (Credit: stockasso/Depositphotos). It’s no secret that the course we’re on with food production and consumption is in need of serious correcting, but a major …
By Ben Coxworth – The NuBike road bike prototype – other models are in the works (Credit: Rodger Parker). Probably ever since bicycles were first invented, people have been looking for alternatives to the traditional approach of pedaling in circles. Los Angeles-based …
By Rich Haridy – Low tide at blue hour reveals a muddy riverbed of fishbone shaped streams in the middle of a small, but unique part of the salt marsh located at the end of the Betanzos Estuary, near A Coruña in …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s rendering of the quasar J043947.08+163415.7, the brightest known quasar with the luminosity of 600 trillion Suns (Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser). From our point of view here on Earth, the brightest object in the sky is …
In 2018, a remote Alaskan community’s infrastructure was hit by a malware attack which forced it offline. It was only then they realized how much they depended on computers. By Chris Baraniuk – Mountain and lake in Mat-Su Borough – p06xjnns. They still …
Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries. By Paul Ratner – Physicists discover complex numbers called octonions that work in 8 dimensions. The numbers have been found linked to fundamental forces of reality. Understanding octonions can lead to a new …
