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James Holloway – Temi will go on sale worldwide October 1, 2018, for the confirmed price of US $1,500 (Credit: James Holloway/New Atlas). The personal robot Temi put in an appearance at IFA recently, alongside the news that it will go on sale …
Michael Irving – A Mars-sized planetary body could be hiding in our Solar System beyond Pluto (Credit: Heather Roper/LPL). In January last year, astronomers from Caltech suggested that a gigantic so-far-undiscovered planet might be lurking on the fringes of the Solar System. Now …
This fierce all-female army was so ruthless that European colonists called them the Amazons after the merciless warriors of Greek mythology. by Fleur Macdonald – Actors Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan earned high praise for their roles in the 2018 Marvel film …
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Old Man Gloom a.k.a. Zozobra burning at Fiestas de Santa Fe, September 8, 2005. Photo by Jeff Weiss. Zozobra (“Old Man Gloom”) is a 50 feet high giant marionette effigy that is built and burned during the annual …
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 …
