Lifeboat Foundation

The InSight spacecraft is about to land.

China has built the world’s first destructive laser, capable of setting clothes on fire and detonating fuel tanks- but it can’t kill people- yet.

As Mars colonization inches ever closer to becoming a reality, some have argued that the ability to afford a ticket to the Red Planet is a luxury afforded only to the wealthiest members of society. Billionaire Elon Musk has said it’ll run potential Mars inhabitants traveling with his company SpaceX hundreds of thousands of dollars to get there. But in a new interview, he rebuffed the assertion that a one-way ticket to Mars is an easy ticket out for the rich.

The comments were part of an interview with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO that will air Sunday evening in the final episode of Axios’ four-part limited documentary series on HBO. In a clip from the interview, Elon Musk hinted that advancements by his company for Mars colonization have been notable and said there’s a “70 percent” chance that he heads to the Red Planet himself.

The bathroom is arguably the last bastion of privacy, but soon a new high-tech lavatory could be tracking your every movement.

Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) and MIT have teamed up with sanitation specialists to create the ‘FitLoo’ which screens human waste for early signs of disease.

Data gathered by the sensors in the toilet bowl could be beamed to the users mobile phone so they can see how their health is changing or even directly to the GP so they could keep a remote eye on patients.

Continue reading “How high-tech toilets could soon be tracking your every movement” »

The genetic engineering debate is heating up again, 15 years after mass protests curbed the use of the technology.

Could advances in tech and medicine provide the key to finding solutions to some of humanity’s most devastating diseases?

In another universe is there an identical you sat at an identical desk, reading this identical question?

Linking qubits via an intermediary protects quantum information for longer.

Quasars powered by supermassive black holes have been unexpectedly vanishing. Scientists have started to figure out why.