Paul Tadich
How Oceans are Being Used to Cool Massive Data Centres
At a state-of-the-art Google server farm in Finland, the waters of the Gulf soothe red-hot microprocessors.
A Tiny Self-Sufficient House Aims to Make Us Rethink Sustainability
A group of architects and engineers in Ottawa are building a tiny, totally self-sufficient house that people might actually want to live in.
How Space-Based Design Will Keep Martians and Moon-Dwellers Sane
Reminders of home will be necessary for humans to make the great leap of living off the Earth.
Why Social Housing Units in Cities Will Be Hard Hit by Climate Change
As the planet gets hotter, many of us will sweat through record temperatures in buildings that aren’t designed to cool down. New technologies will help.
The iPhone Revolutionized Gay Hookup Culture
With Grindr, love and sex became available in abundance. So did body shaming and discrimination.
How an Ancient Supernova Turned the Sky on Earth Electric Blue
Here’s what would happen if a supernova struck Earth.
An Artificial Womb for Lambs Foreshadows Womb-Free Births for Humans
Lamb fetuses were kept alive outside their mothers’ bodies in “biobags.”
An Artificial Womb for Lambs Foreshadows Womb-Free Births for Humans
Lamb fetuses were kept alive outside their mothers’ bodies in “biobags.”
An Artificial Womb for Lambs Foreshadows Womb-Free Births for Humans
Lamb fetuses were kept alive outside their mothers’ bodies in “biobags.”
Why CRISPR Never Could Have Come Out of Silicon Valley
Motherboard caught up with Jennifer Doudna at the Gairdner Awards in Toronto, where she’s being honoured as a pioneer of the gene editing technology.
Scientists Have Conducted Decades of Research on Mislabeled Cell Lines
Since 1950, many cell lines used in research have been mislabeled as being from the wrong individual, tissue, or species.