Since they were invented by Karl Benz around the mid-1880s, Cars were and still are a revolutionary invention. It completely changes the way people get around and has allowed us to go further in a Continue Reading
The Mother of Wifi
A picture of Hedy Lamarr (c) Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler ) was an inventor born on November 9th in Vienna, Austria. She has invented various things such as Continue Reading
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (c) Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 Hedy Lamarr was a Austrian-American Actress and Inventor. Along with George Antheil, they came up with the "Secret Communications System". This invention Continue Reading
Dr. Mária Telkes: A Bright Inventor
Dr. Mária Telkes at MIT (C) Mdf, CC-BY-SA 3.0 March is Women's History Month. Therefore, this week in Future Science Leaders, we were tasked with writing about a woman who invented something; as a Continue Reading
Inside the Body: MRI and MEG
MRI brain scans, Heggie, Liddell & Maher (2000), Public Domain Last Wednesday at FSL, we were lucky enough to tour a SFU medical imaging lab at Surrey Memorial hospital. There, two machines Continue Reading
Imaginary Reality
A different prespective An alien is looking at a special, green-blue planet. He is a scientist, and his orders are to understand the strange creatures that live on this space rock. Humans, he Continue Reading
The MRI and MEG
Recently, I was able to have my first experience with the MRI and MEG, which was pretty exciting. No, I do not necessarily mean that I got an MRI and MEG scan. I got a brief tour and despite the Continue Reading
MRIs and MEGs Working Together
MRI machine via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 You probably know what an MRI is: A very powerful magnetic-field emitting machine used to see your body's organs and structures. MEGs are not as well-known, Continue Reading
Virtual Reality and the Brain
We all heard about virtual reality before. In fact, we witness it's development in our day to day lives as we see it more often. One popular example would be those Snapchat filters that we use all the Continue Reading
The Truth About Electric Cars
"Tesla Roadster" (c) Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 One of the most pressing problems we face as humanity today is climate change. If we do not solve this problem, the future of humanity may be threatened. Continue Reading