THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We…

THE RODIN COIL: Is It The Greatest Discovery Of All Time ?

Free energy is easily one of the hottest topics in the world within alternative news. While mainstream news continues to ignore the growing interest around the subject, alternative news outlets are providing new information about the inventions, science, mathematics and…

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NOTHING

Imagine you are at the seashore, watching the waves. Somewhere in the distance you see a sailboat — wait, don’t fall asleep yet. The waves and I want to tell you a story about nothing. Before quantum mechanics, “vacuum” meant the absence…

TEN AMAZING INNOVATIONS THAT WILL CHANGE OUR LIFES THE NEXT YEARS

We are living in an extremely exciting time in terms of science and technology. Things that have always been considered science fiction are becoming normal day-to-day components of our lives. And while we have been seeing invention after breakthrough over…

HOW TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE UNIVERSES ?

Inflationary cosmology is not completely proven, but it remains the best model we have for the formation of our universe. What it doesn’t provide us with is an origin. Our continent of origin is only one of many continents, our…

HUMANS DID NOT WIPE OUT THE NEANDERTHALS – New Research Suggests

Neanderthals went extinct in Europe about 40,000 years ago, giving them millennia to coexist with modern humans culturally and sexually, new findings suggest. This research also suggests that modern humans did not cause Neanderthals to rapidly go extinct, as some…

WHAT HAPPENS TO CONSCIOUSNESS WHEN WE DIE ?

Where is the experience of red in your brain? The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif. A posse of presenters argued that the lack of a complete theory by…

PASSING CURRENT THROUGH OUR BRAIN REALLY MAKE US SMARTER ?

Want to be smarter, solve difficult puzzles, learn the piano in half the time? All you need is a little shock. A growing number of scientists are claiming that passing a small current through the brain increases our aptitude. One…

THE MINORITY REPORT INTERFACE BY FUJITSU

Over the past year we’ve seen lots of experimentation around user interface, ranging from infrared eye tracking (which has already found its way into mainstream smartphones) to incredibly accurate 3D motion controls. Today, Japan’s Fujitsu is showing off its take…

THE COMMERCIAL BIRTH OF NATURAL COMPUTING

Punch card. Keyboard. Mouse. Touchscreen. Voice. Gesture. This abbreviated history of human-computer interaction follows a clear trajectory of improvement, where each mode of communication with technology is demonstrably easier to use than the last. We are now entering an era…

A BOY AND HIS ATOM : The World’s Smallest Movie

It's the smallest film in the world, that's for sure, because the protagonists of "A Boy and His Atom" are atoms. Thousands of atoms, placed with precision to create nearly 250 frames taken with the stop motion technique. The short…

CHARGING BATTERIES WITH AMBIENT ENERGY

We're surrounded by electromagnetic fields almost everywhere these days. Just because they're almost imperceptible doesn't mean they can't be used as a source of energy though. One student in Germany recently built the Electromagnetic Harvester, a small box that allegedly…

THE WHITE HOUSE PETITION TO BUILD A DEATH STAR

The White House has officially responded to a petition calling on the US government to begin a construction of a Death Star by 2016. Though the news for proponents of space fascism wasn't good, Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science…

WEAPONS OF THE FUTURE

The technological revolution in modern warfare isn't just a matter of super-lightweight uniforms, night goggles, and ultra-computerized weaponry. Consider the unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones. Barely a blip on military blueprints a decade ago, drones now make up…

SCIENTISTS CAN HACK OUR BRAIN ?

Worry about cybercriminals getting into personal files and online banking accounts? Imagine if someone could actually extract that information directly from your brain. Scientists from the University of California and the University of Oxford in Geneva are working on developing…