- Engineering Mars: Why terraforming the Red Planet may require smashing it with icy giants. Seems a little…drastic?
- Have they been here? When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space – but alien life might be closer than you think.
- The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking: To safeguard threatened plants, science must unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken.
- Dyson spheres could really exist — but there’s a catch.
- The animals that exist between life and death: At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory. (Archived page link)
- Agencies are making plans to catch rocks from other solar systems.
- ‘Biological reality’: What genetics has taught us about the concept of ‘race’.
- Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech: AI and brain implants are being leveraged to create voice neuroprostheses.
- ‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth.
- Network states: the tech broligarchy who want to create new countries. Word continues to spread about the Technocratic Conspiracy!
- The forgotten Indian explorer who uncovered an ancient civilisation.
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Quote of the Day:
Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell.
Pope Francis
