WATCH PART 1 NOW: http://bit.ly/1Sb0sGx For as long as humans have existed, we’ve have had a complicated and deadly relationship with disease and contagion. But our battle with pathogens is only beginning, and in fact it’s getting more and more complicated. With the advent of better transportation, exponentially increasing urbanization, unequal development, and rapidly evolving microbes and viruses, our largest, and perhaps most deadly, epidemics are still to come.
In our three-part documentary series Symptomatic, Motherboard dives into the world of disease prevention and containment. From scientists working around the clock to curb the spread of the Zika virus, to the people hunting the oceans for new life-saving antibiotics, to those working in high risk facilities to keep deadly livestock diseases out of the US, we meet the people responsible keeping us safe from the next catastrophic outbreak.
Clad in scuba gear, with an air tank attached to his back, a casual observer might mistake William Fenical for a particularly intrepid archaeologist. But rather than examining the artifacts hidden ...
About the size of Central Park and a few miles off the coast of Long Island, Plum Island houses the nation's only laboratory that is capable of conducting live research of foot-and-mouth disease, a...
The mosquito is historically one of the most deadly animals on the planet, spreading epidemics such Dengue, Malaria, and now Zika at alarming rates. In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard trav...
WATCH PART 1 NOW: http://bit.ly/1Sb0sGx For as long as humans have existed, we’ve have had a complicated and deadly relationship with disease and contagion. But our battle with pathogens is only be...
Motherboard explores a unique church in the heart of Hollywood, Florida where the parishioners believe that immortality is attainable through the progression of s...
Released in the early 1980s, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was once a powerhouse in home computing. With a library consisting of mostly educational games, Hunt The Wumpus, a map-based puzzle/adven...
Connected, by Luke Gilford, is a portrait of a woman grappling with aging, self-perception, and transformation in a technologically optimized world. Jackie (Pamela Anderson) is a burnt-out AuraCycl...
The KiraVan is meant to be the ultimate exploration vehicle—a ’Swiss army knife on wheels.’ A pet project for designer Bran Ferren, who named the van after his daughter Kira, the KiraVan also acts ...
For the past decade, Vint Cerf has worked at Google as the company's vice president and chief internet evangelist. But in the 1970s Cerf co-invented some of the technologies and standards that unde...