Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement

Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement

Cody R. Wilson is a 25-year-old University of Texas law student who is working to build semiautomatic weapons using a 3D printer. Cody is an articulate and tech-savvy mouthpiece for the fight against

'Click. Print. Gun.' (Trailer)

Cody R. Wilson has figured out how to print a semiautomatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him. Our documentary 'Click. Pr…

The Space Suit Makers

When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Br…

Valley of the UFOs

We ventured to Hooper, Colorado (population: 105) to investigate some of the stranger things that have gone down there—from shooting stars to strange weather patterns to aliens descending to Earth in…

The Space Composer

As we started planning the second season of our 'Spaced Out' series, we wanted to feature non-scientists thinking about the future of space. Enter composer Robert Alexander, who is helping NASA make n…

Libya in Vitro

Last summer, we met Mohammed and Nadia, a couple from Tripoli who had left their distressed home for six months to live in Jordan. They hoped to conceive through in vitro fertilization with the help o…

Open Source Outer Space

Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what the nonprofit, open-source space-project Copenhagen Suborbitals wants the world to realize…

Drone On

From weapon expos in Jordan to idyllic California beaches, we caught up with the people who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to

The Satellite Hunter

Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer. He’s a renowned astrophotographer, painstakingly chronicling the orbits of planets, distant galaxies, spaceships, and—to the chagrin of the inte…

The Silent Dish

In 1956, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was formed in rural Green Bank, West Virginia, and became the hotbed of radio astronomy in the United States. But now, with cell phones, wi-fi, and ra…

The Guy Who Hunts Space Bears in Rural Virginia

Mike Shaw is a quiet, unassuming man who's in love with the wilderness, and he knows more about tardigrades than almost anyone. These microscopic creatures, whose name comes from the German for “slow…

Justin Warner Makes a Salad for the Apocalypse

Justin Warner is a Food Network Star who's been getting the attention of New York’s trendy tastebuds from his Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, restaurant Do or Dine. The restaurant’s DIY aesthetic, which pairs th…

Blowing Up Asteroids with Neil deGrasse Tyson

What are the chances of an asteroid colliding with earth and causing hundreds of millions of people to drown in tidal waves the size of skyscrapers? For this piece, we talked to science's No. 1 booste…

Plus Pool

A few dudes in Brooklyn think swimming in New York's rivers is a cool idea, so they're planning to build a plus sign-shaped pool, appropriately named Plus Pool, that will float in the city's surroundi…

Experimental Music with Dan Deacon

It's two parts "Bill Nye," 1.5 parts "Meet the Band" and 100 percent awesome.

A Death on the Frontier

The unprecedented hunt for the the Higgs boson or "God particle" may have culminated at Europe's largest particle accelerator, but it was the product of an effort that began thousands of miles away a…

Spaced Out: The Artstronaut

Nicholas Forker is a maestro of the ballpoint pen. One day I was walking by the half-way open door of his art studio in Bushwick and noticed astronauts on the wall. Drawings and ink paintings of astro…

I Was a Teenage Cryonicist

Seventeen-year-old Matthew Deutsch is planning to brain freeze himself and his dogs into eternity.

Spaced Out: Making Mars with Tom Sachs

Artist Tom Sachs has recreated an entire four-week mission to Mars with little more than wood, glue and household objects. Working with Nasa and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, his studio built go-kart…

Ultra-Orthodox Internet

Citi Field was sold out recently, but not for the Mets. Motherboard TV's Alex Pasternack investigates an anti-internet rally.

Spaced Out: Outer Space Interior Design

A look at the next generation of space vehicles headed for Mars, near-Earth asteroids, and beyond.

Now I'm a Meme: Vermin Supreme

The first time I saw fringe presidential candidate Vermin Supreme on the internet, I thought he was dead serious, and I was terrified of him. I was convinced this weird guy was going to enslave us.

Hand or Internet: Which Would You Rather Lose?

We can understand why someone, if forced to choose, would rather lose their hand than the Internet. We think it’s insane, but we can understand.

Impossible Is Something

The cautionary tale of Aleksey Vayner, whose "Impossible Is Nothing" video made him an unintentional viral superstar.

Doctor Teller's Strange Loves

The father of the hydrogen bomb really hated fascists.

Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life

The media critic and author of "Program or Be Programmed" poses the big question of our time: How do you get the good of a zombie apocalypse without the zombies?

Free the Network

We made a documentary about hackers hitting the streets to take back the Web.

Sound Machines of the Amazon

Technobrega, the Amazon's flashy answer to house music, is part pirates, part space ships.

The Thorium Dream

Motherboard's documentary about a forgotten vision for a "safer" nuclear power, and the evangelists trying to bring it back.

A Dragon Con Odyssey

VICE travels to Atlanta to attend Dragon Con, a five-day bacchanalian orgy of sci-fi and comic book fans going bananas in the city's hotel rooms. We dive deep into the chaos with hundreds of cos-play

Motherboard Meets Evan Glodell

Evan Glodell is pretty good at turning hunks of metal into roaring, fire-breathing machines.

Motherboard Meets Errol Morris

Errol Morris' stranger-than-fiction movies aren't just examinations of fascinating people but the strange ways that the facts circulate around them.

The Creature Shop

We traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit the dudes behind the country’s leading horror factory, The Creature Shop.

Chris & Cosey

We got the chance to spend some time at the country house of the music making powerhouse – and long time couple – Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Electric Independence: John Foxx

We went to visit John Foxx deep in the darkest depths of Shoreditch, East London, at the studio of his latest collaborator, Benge.

The Sakawa Boys

Ghana’s enterprising young cybercriminals use traditional Juju magic to supercharge their email scams, and a subculture is born. Now Ghana’s in the grips of Sakawamania!

Electric Independence: Ceephax Acid Crew

Onze gappie Andy Jenkinson, aka Ceephax, aka Ceephax Acid Crew, is een onvergelijkbaar persoon. Hij is een van de laatste, echte, doe-het-zelvers binnen de elektronische muziek.

Electric Independence: Ulrich Schnauss

The peerless electronic wunderkind Ulrich Schnauss was kind enough to show us his favorite instruments and demo the tasty tones from his forthcoming album.

CMD & CTRL: Tim Wu

We know that technology carries with it all manner of problems, but one of our biggest pickles tends to slip right by us.

Electric Independence: Emeralds

It's not everyday we get to (or want to) go to Cleveland, but when the opportunity came along to hang with Emeralds, we put our boots on and headed (mid)west.

Electric Independence: Morton Subotnick

In its early days, electronic music wasn’t very musical. Enter Morton Subotnick.

Listening to the Universe

Ralph Baer and His All-Purpose Boxes

In this episode, we travel to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer. He tells us about his past and how he came to be one of the most important figures in video gaming history.

How I Got Famous on the Internetz

For one weekend, the viral internet comes together IRL (in real life). Yup, it’s as bad as it sounds. And by bad, we mean really, really fun.

Monrovian Analog Blogger

Internet-starved Monrovians turn to this guy’s dry-erase board for all their news-aggregating needs.

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Carlos and His Heavy Metal Toys

Wasilla, “real America” Alaska is more than just Sarah Palin’s stomping ground and a natural-gas haven. Wasilla’s also the hometown of Carlos Owens, a man whose 20-foot robotic…

Bent Fest

It was an average Saturday at the DUMBO, Brooklyn outlet of Mikey’s Hook Up, a computer retailer and repair specialist. Well-groomed arty-types came in, alone, in couples, with lattes in hand, a…

Soundbuilders: Reed Ghazala

Reed Ghazahla: The father of circuit bending.

Stelarc: The Man with Three Ears

Stelarc is not interested in explaining what he is. On this edition of Motherboard, VBS meets Stelarc, a Greek weirdo who lives in Australia and has been screwing with

Curtis Roads

Bringing music down to the microsound level.

Psychedelic Photomicrography and the Silicon Zoo

Michael Davidson takes pictures of teeny tiny living and non-living cells through a high-powered microscope.

Doctor Laser

NYC Resistor: Making Awesome Things Happen

NYC Resistor is a Brooklyn based group of “hackers for good” who take apart and rebuild everything from high tech hardware to knit goods and paper.

Something Wrong Is Nothing Wrong

Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of Jodi.org create chaos, instill fear, and make funny artwork that proves that something wrong still works.

Richard Garriott

Richard shows us the grounds of Britannia Manor, an elaborate house combining the teenage fantasies of like five separate breeds of boy.

The Thankless Search for Intelligence Out There... Somewhere

Adora Svitak, a 12 year-old prodigy who has been declared "the most clever child in the world," is the host of our new Motherboard series.

The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil

Despite being perceived as an extreme optimist, Kurzweil is the first to admit that this technology could very quickly bring an end to the world as we know it.

Backyard Rocketeer

Juan Manuel Gallegos has a full stable of rocket-powered conveyances in the backyard of his Morelos home/laboratory.

The Body Farm

A hectare of fine East Tennessean woodland is home to the nation’s oldest and largest open-air collection of rotting corpses.

Brian Gibson: A Total Change in Lifestyle

To brew his distinctive earth-crunching, head-banging bass sounds for noise band Lightning Bolt, Brian Gibson constructs some of the most complex playing techniques and pedal arrangements known to roc…

Sid Meier and the 48 Hour Game

Always a true believer in the idea that games will one day rule the world, Sid Meier wants to inspire a new generation of game designers.

Space Shuttle Parking Lot

A shuttle launch is still one of mankind's most complex and massive undertakings, a carefully-primed $1.3 billion event that turns years of planning and construction into a spectacle that lasts only a…

The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland

Chamberland is not only certain that the colonization of the ocean floor is imminent; he's making it happen.

The Madagascar Institute

What you need to know about the Madagascar Institute, first of all, is that it’s not a collective. That word’s too hippy, too emotional, not active enough. They’re a “combine,&…

Colombian Narcosubs

Colombian drug traffickers up the ante with homemade coke-smuggling submarines.

Electric Independence - JD Samson

JD Samson is the awesome, pubestachio'd beat-maker behind Le Tigre and MEN, and the leading lesbian of her charitable volunteer group Dykes Can Dance.

Black Holes and Big Bangs

VBS explores CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, to determine whether its 17 miles of tubing buried under the Franco-Swiss border will reveal the origin of mass in the univers…

Television Meltdown by Soso Limited

Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg – with backgrounds in physics, architecture, computer science, media arts an…

The Atomic Trucker

John Coster-Mullen takes a break from trucking to build his own nuke.

The Electrophobes

Being allergic to electricity isn’t a death sentence, but it is a lifetime-of-boredom sentence.

Oscar Niemeyer 101

Oscar Niemeyer, the man who designed Brazil's space-age moon-capital, died yesterday at 104. He was one of the 20th century’s most influential architects and certainly its most influential Brazilian…

I, Professor Sankai

While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more “sophisticated” side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretense of goodwill.

Electric Independence: Matmos

For the debut of the second season of Electric Independence, Motherboard’s electronic music series, we visited Matmo at their Baltimore studio.

The Biggest Telescope on Earth

Motherboard travelled to the English countryside to check out the largest telescope in the world.

Electric Independence: Xeno and Oaklander

Meet Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride. Together they make up the minimal synth band Xeno and Oaklander. They record in their Brooklyn studio using an arsenal of exclusively analog instruments.

Electric Independence: Oneohtrix Point Never

Daniel Lopatin, the man behind the psychedelic IDM project Oneohtrix Point Never, has very intimate relationships with his keyboards.

Immaculate Telegraphy

All your merit patches probably wouldn’t amount to much if, say, you found yourself needing to restart civilization from scratch.

Hi-Tech Guerilla Gardening

Vanessa Harden is like the ‘Q’ of the guerrilla gardening world.

Electric Independence: Chromeo

In advance of their new album Business Casual, Motherboard visited the groove scientists at home in Montreal to sample their secret synth sauce.

Mars on Earth

Motherboard’s Kelly Loudenberg recently paid a visit to the Mars Desert Research Station to get a glimpse of Mars on Earth.

Networked City

If you can’t wait around for the future to happen, chances are you will feel at home at the FutureEverything festival.

The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza

Ernesto Orozo, designer and artist, found that the general population of Cuba had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival.

Oral History of Gaming: Alex Rigopulos

When he was leaving the M.I.T. Media Lab in 1995, Alex Rigopulos and his classmates decided they wanted to make music-making accessible to the masses.

The Cyborg

In 1998, Kevin Warwick, a Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, became the world’s first cyborg. Well, to be exact, he had a radio frequency ID implanted in his arm.

Scion DJ Car

Liz Phillips

Sound installation artist Liz Phillips creates a cacophonous environment out of a gourmet meal.

Janet Hansen

Janet Hansen has sewn her lifelong passions for fashion, art, and technology together into spectacular lighted costumery that’s illuminated performers like Daft Punk and

Peaking Lights

We travel to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear.

Electric Independence: DEVO

Motherboard visits DEVO in California. We check out their studio and learn how these pioneers of weird pop are reinventing themselves for the Internet Age.

Diego Stocco

In this episode sound designer and composer Diego Stocco goes shopping at Home Depot for parts to make a brand new instrument.

Jonah Peretti: The King of Internet Buzz

If the Internet ever had a mad scientist who mailed tasty viruses to millions of inboxes, Jonah Peretti would be him.

Dr. Nakamats: Patently Strange

Motherboard visits Nakamatsu’s lab in Tokyo to learn more about the mad scientist’s inventions, his underwater brainstorm sessions, and his quest to activate technological creativity i

Eric Zimmerman

Eric Zimmerman can’t stop making games. An accomplished game designer, artist, and academic of play, he’s been exploring innovative video game design since the heady 90s.

Electric Independence: Gavin Russom

Gavin Russom is a wizard, and not just because of his long red flowing mane.

2010 Medals: Turning Circuit Boards into Olympic Gold

The 2010 medals are the first to be made of recycled metals and circuit boards.

Fashion Geek

Diana Eng demonstrates how easily technology can be incorporated into fashion.

Electric Independence: XXXChange

In this episode of Electric Independence, we head out to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to visit producer and DJ Alex Upton (aka XXXChange) at his home studio.

Fuel: A Documentary About Fuel

Eddy Moretti goes to the home of Josh Tickell and his fiancé Rebecca Harrell to discuss the slow rise and drastic fall of the green-movement they helmed.

Electric Independence: RJD2

Electric Independence visits Philadelphia DJsician Ramble John “RJ” Krohn, better known as RJD2. RJ takes us for a tour of his multiple drum kits and massive modular synths.

The Survival of Mark Pauline

Mark Pauline’s Survival Research Laboratories create some of the most dangerous machines ever made, rivaling the military. But instead of turning their threats on us, the machines blow each

PAX Gaming Expo 2009

Motherboard hangs out with nerd bands, gamers and developers, and finds out why PAX is the biggest and best video gaming convention in America.

Cai Guo-Qiang and the Art of Fire Medicine

VBS meets Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist who paints with exploding gunpowder.

Electric Independence: Holy Ghost!

Motherboard takes a stroll down the block to Holy Ghost!‘s home studio where we conduct a massive drool-sesh over their cache of analog gear.

The Stylophone

How a cheap wooden toy captured the imagination of musical weirdos like David Bowie and Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk.

The Electronic Persecution of Jesus Mendoza

Motherboard travels to Texas to meet Jesus, a man who claims the government is persecuting him with satellite radiation.

The Virtusphere

Finally, a virtual reality system you walk around in like some kind of giant man-hamster.

Robotic Hackers

A hovel of MIT grads embark on a Red Bull- and cigarette-fueled robotics bender.

Mini Sumo Robots

Mexicans conquer the last bastion of US/Japanese superiority: competitive robotics.

Damanhur: Selfic Laboratory for the Future of Humanity

The vast underground temples and secret chambers of Damanhur.

Alexei Shulgin and the Art of No Brain

The warped, cyberdelic art-gadgets of Moscow’s Electroboutique.

Ralph Lundsten's Andromeda Galaxy

Ralph Lundsten’s recording studio is its own country.

Twin Galaxies and the Golden Domes

Serving as referee and scorekeeper to the world’s gamers is only a sideline to Walter Day’s real interest: Transcendental Meditation.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

Tatsuya Matsui wants to make his robotic children part of your everday life.

Dr. White's Total Body Transplant

Talkin’ bout advanced neurology at the Geneva, Ohio Mickey D’s.