Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future

NewScientist

Tell me about your bionic legs…
I have a company that produces what I’m wearing: the BiOM Ankle System. For the first time in history we’ve normalised walking speed and its energy cost. In other words, if you simply measure a user’s speed and metabolic energy expenditure, you can’t tell whether they have bionic legs or biological legs.

A new hunt for ET could well find AI on non-Earthlike worlds

NewScientist

AS WE discover planets across our galaxy – and perhaps beyond – it is right that the search for alien entities should be stepped up. Breakthrough Listen, a $100-million project led by the Russian billionaire and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, is set to reinvigorate the hunt for ET.

Underwater Greenhouses Offer Creative Solution To Food Crisis

Popsci

There actually is an octopus in this garden.

For the past few years, from May-September, a few small transparent enclosures pop up on the seafloor off the coast of Italy.

The structures are underwater greenhouses, anchored 20 feet below the surface of the water, filled with air and small amounts of crops. Unlike land-based gardens, there are no pests—the only animals seen in this garden are some seahorses, crabs, and, yes, octopuses.

Physicist in Omaha Is Still Working on a Warp Drive in His Garage

Motherboard

When David Pares works in his garage at night, he has to do it by flashlight. That’s because he just doesn’t have the power for lights with what he says he’s building in there: the first-ever working warp motor, the holy grail of sci-fi technology.