Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history.
- Bet you figured taking a whiz in space would involve computers and a really embarrassed looking robot. Turns out, it’s pretty low-tech and, once upon a time, involved just holding it.
- We reviewed only the very best future movies—movies with “future” in the title, that is.
- A real actual scientist explains how bacteria can conduct electricity, and how humans can take advantage of it.
- We found a planet with two suns, like in that one movie.
- Evolution Explains. . .why dogs eat crap. The answer, in a word: leftovers.
- Meet the Nintendo guy whose job it was to make video games cool again in the post-Atari ’80s, courtesy of his very lucky son: “My Dad Mastered Every Nintendo Game.”