Rich Haridy – Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, is undergoing a renaissance in medical research (Credit: kooikkari Flickr CC BY SA 2.0) . For decades certain drugs, initially used solely by doctors and researchers, have been ostracized from the world of legitimate …
Michael Irving – An artist’s rendition of Sedna, a dwarf planet that lurks on the edge of the Solar System(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Over the last few years, there’s been growing evidence for a huge, ninth planet lurking on the very edges of the Solar System. …
Loz Blain – The Carpii 4ciclet’s fairly narrow frontal profile makes it reasonably nimble in traffic (Credit: Carpii) Here’s an odd little commuting curiosity from Romania called the Carpii 4ciclet. It’s a four-wheeled stepper cycle targeted at older riders that transfers most of …
Fans of human-powered transport can already choose between having both feet on a skateboard, or each foot in a rollerblade. If you’re more into motorized self-balancing devices, though, you’ve been pretty much stuck putting both feet on a Segway-like hoverboard. That’s not the …
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, looks poised to become something of a 3D-printed architecture boom town. Following the construction of a 3D-printed bridge in the city, a total of five rental homes made using the cutting edge tech are now planned too. Read more
Astronomers scanning the skies just got a huge surprise. They discovered a gigantic galaxy orbiting our own, where none had been seen before. It just came out of nowhere. So, just how did the recently-discovered Crater 2 succeed to pull off this feat, …
By Rich Haridy – A compound found in green tea, already being examined as a potential Alzheimer’s treatment, may also be useful in preventing heart disease(Credit: Kesu01/Depositphotos) It’s not a huge newsflash that green tea has some pretty impressive health benefits, but a …
By Paul Ridden – The Revos add-on e-bike kit has launched on Kickstarter to reach production(Credit: Revolution Works) Whether you’re cycling to the office and don’t want to arrive too sweaty and out of puff, or you just need some help getting …
By Mike Colagrossi – The world is teeming with intelligence, from little wormy grubs in the garden to physicists poring over equations in university offices. In the past few years we’ve also come to view our virtual assistants as possessing some kind of …
Michael Irving – An artist’s rendition of two neutron stars colliding, an event observed for the first time in August last year (Credit: CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/Trinity University/D. Pooley et al.) In August 2017, astronomers were treated to one of the most spectacular …
