Reading Time: 3 minutes More Black writers and artists are turning to science fiction — and an artistic movement known as Afrofuturism — to tackle issues around race and inequality and give fans an escape from the harsh realities on Earth.
Reading Time: 5 minutes If and when they eradicate humans, they would be better suited to space travel. In orbit, octopuses could maneuver much more easily and fit in smaller spaces.
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I arrived in Austria I had to complete a German language course before I could attend university, but I had trouble focusing in the online learning platform. Immersive virtual reality solved the problem.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Looking at least one decade into the future, I believe we will see significant advancements in three areas by 2030 as a result of AI — personal assistance devices, genomics, and space exploration.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The head of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins had joined forces with Harvard University professor David Liu and others to tackle progeria, a genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly.
Reading Time: 3 minutes While more progress is being made all the time in artificial intelligence, some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Reading science fiction and fantasy may help young people cope, especially with the stress and anxiety of living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Matter might not be made of particles or waves, as was long thought, butm more fundamentally, of fragments of energy.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just because mermaids are not real does not mean they are not meaningful.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A quiet revolution is taking place in the global space industry and its full impact on global space industry should be measured over the next decade.
Reading Time: 3 minutes One thing we learned from 2020 is not to trust AI facial recognition –it’s biased against race and gender.
Reading Time: 7 minutes In this brave new world, many of our choices aren’t choices at all.
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Yesterday’s directive promoting the use of nuclear power in space, including in low Earth Orbit, presents lots of interesting plot possibilities for thrillers.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last Friday, billionaire inventor Tony Stark — I mean, Elon Musk — showed off progress on his latest project, the Neuralink.
Reading Time: 4 minutes What if one day we could cheat death? What if we could live longer – possibly forever? And if we could, would we want to?
Reading Time: 6 minutes A new paradox in quantum mechanics – one of our two most fundamental scientific theories – throws doubt on some common-sense ideas about physical reality.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Tesla was a real-life Prometheus: the mythical Greek titan who raided heaven to bring fire to mankind, yet in punishment was chained to a rock where each day an eagle ate his liver.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wireless power transmission is the future, but there are a lot of technical challenges to overcome.
