Science fiction or fact

The automotive manufacturer Lexus has released this teaser video of their new endeavour: a hoverboard. Called the Slide...

This video shows what can be done to achieve photo-realism in games with the Unreal 4 game-engine, which is essentially a core infrastructure around which many games are built.

This video shows what can be done to achieve photo-realism in games with the Unreal 4 game-engine, which is essentially a core infrastructure around which many games are built.

NASA has released a video of what the phases of the moon looks like from the far side. As with the side of the moon which is visible from Earth, the far side has its own complete cycle of phases, however the terrain here is somewhat different.

A crow displaying a remarkable understanding of water displacement and causality.

Dean Lazarus, below, is the man behind a novel barrier idea developed by his company, Spider Wire. Lazarus, who has a security background in both Australia and South Africa, moved back here around 5 years ago.

Lucid dreaming is as close as you can get to making your wildest dreams come true without entering The Matrix. It is the process where you become aware you are dreaming without waking and then proceed to take control of events and processes at your whim in the dream state – and millions of people are doing it. Now scientists believe lucid dreaming is associated with better metacognition.

A casual beach side flight of a radio controlled plane goes wrong in the glare from the sun, but the GoPro catches the crash into the water on film, and so much more underwater.

On 12 November, history was made when ESA’s Rosetta mission soft-landed its Philae probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...