How amateur scientists are still helping make important discoveries

What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures are surrounded by glassware filled with coloured liquids. Maybe someone, with slightly furrowed brow, is hunched over a microscope. But what this scene fails to convey is that science isn’t about labs, equipment, […]

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Lamborghini x IKEUCHI ‘Chasing the Future’ concept

An avant-garde artistic collaboration with the Japanese artist IKEUCHI to commemorate Lamborghini’s 60th anniversary. Automobili Lamborghini celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023. To commemorate this significant year, Lamborghini and Japan’s most disruptive contemporary artist IKEUCHI have come together in this artistic collaboration. Inspired by the 60th-anniversary motto “The future began in 1963”, this joint project […]

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SpaceX’s new internet service could be a gamechanger in Africa

It’s hard for many of us to imagine a world without instant, limitless internet access. Some have even argued that it should, alongside access to clean water and electricity, be considered a basic human right. But in fact only 64.4% of the global population as of January 2023 are internet users. Asia and Europe are […]

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Night skies are getting 9.6% brighter every year

Credit NASA Night skies are getting 9.6% brighter every year as light pollution erases stars for everyone. For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars began to disappear. We are two […]

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US: 9 Conferences That Should be on Your List in 2023

Looking to elevate your brand? Conferences are an excellent way to do so. From accessing new ideas and feedback to networking and marketing opportunities, conferences offer a host of benefits to forward-thinking brands. But, with hundreds of thousands of conferences held in the United States alone every year, it begs the question: which conferences in […]

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EIPC Winter Conference 2023, Day 2 Review

EIPC Winter Conference 2023, Day 2 Review Day 2 of the EIPC Winter Conference at the Groupama Stadium in the Décines-Charpieu region of the Metropolis of Lyon in eastern France included a privileged visit to the Bugey Nuclear Power Plant for those who were registered and passed their security clearance. Such was the interest that […]

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One easy way to fight antibiotic resistance? Good hand hygiene

Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically, it’s possible. Antibiotics save lives by killing bacteria that cause infections. But antibiotics don’t just kill infection-causing bacteria or stay in the area of the body where the infection is occurring. Instead, antibiotics spread across the body and inhibit or kill any sensitive […]

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BAE Systems Strix tail-sitting X-Wing UAV

BAE Systems Strix tail-sitting X-Wing UAV is a hybrid, tandem wing, multi-domain and multi-role uncrewed air system. BAE Systems Australia has teamed with local industry to create the first domestically designed, manufactured and armed VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) uncrewed air system (UAS). Strix is a joint creation with Perth-based Innovaero, launched at the 2023 […]

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G-Quest Mega-yacht Concept | WordlessTech

G-Quest mega-yacht is Class-A oceanographic research and shore-capable exploration and hospital vessel. The 215-mete G-Quest yacht is designed for both humanitarian and research objectives. The upper three decks are designated for the owner and their guests. The remaining 80% of the yacht is dedicated to oceanographic research, medical research, green propulsion experimentation, and medical intervention. […]

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Imagination is a spectrum – and 1% of people can’t mentally visualise things at all

When you hear someone talk, do you see the words in your mind’s eye? Or do you see what they’re saying as a movie? It’s easy to assume that the way you perceive the world is the same for everyone. But recent studies have revealed that there is a wide spectrum of how people visualise […]

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