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.