• Are refillable soap dispensers a microbial trap?

    According to a research published in the May issue of the journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, they can be. The study, conducted by GOJO Industries, shows that soap dispensers with sealed, disposable containers are preferable to the normal refillable ones, as these refillable containers can become contaminated with Gram-negative bacteria....
  • Nuclear power is so 1980s

    With all the alternative power sources currently available, and those being discovered on an almost daily basis, isn’t it about time, on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear incident, that someone talks at least some sense into those boneheads. Earlier I was watching a press conference that was...
  • Is augmented reality the future of portable video games?

    This story is also published on our sister site, UberReview. I’ve just come back from a walk, downtown Montreal, with my friend and co-worker Eric, whom you might remember, was my companion during the Nintendo 3DS misadventure (from which I only just almost completely regained my full, straight eyesight). We...
  • The Mountain [video]

    A couple of weeks ago, filmmaker Terje Sorgjerd climbed his way up El Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, to take a week-long time-lapse video. His plan was to shoot the Milky Way, but a sand storm came in from the Sahara and shook things up a little. Things...
  • Coming soon to your driveway; Laser Spark Plugs!

    For the last 100 years or so, the internal combustion engine has been following a simple design, a spark plug, designed to arc some high electrical current creates a spark, which ignites an air/fuel mixture and propels the piston back down the cylinder, generating the energy required to move...
  • Robot orders scone at coffeeshop, gets served and leaves tip!

    During what must have looked like a scene from iRobot, in Mountain View, California, a remote controlled robot, with a human face displayed on an LCD panel, stood in line at a coffee shop, ordered a scone, received it and left a tip. Most people’s reaction was to simply...
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    Computers learning to ‘regret’ decisions, routing paths, and serving humanity

    In Tel Aviv, researchers are working toward integrating computers with ‘regret’ in order to improve overall efficiency. In theory, a computer system would register the difference between a desired outcome and the actual outcome, then attempt alternatives over time to achieve or exceed the desired outcome without instructions by...
  • ISRO discovers a giant underground cavern on the moon!

    It would appear that in just over three years, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has disclosed more information than NASA in over 40 years of space exploration, as the Indian Space Research Organization have reported the discovery of a 1-2km wide hollow lava tube, almost perfectly horizontal and quite...
  • FBI releases 1950 memo that seems to prove the Roswell myth

    With the launch of the FBI Vault website, came the bizarre release of a 1950 document that seems to attest to the existence of the famous Roswell aliens and their flying saucers. About the saucers themselves, agent Hottel wrote in the memo that :”‘Each one was occupied by three...