Growing up in the '70s and '80s, in the afterglow of the Apollo space program, there was a real expectation that humans were about to begin moving into space. ...
I have recently been binge-watching the excellent Devs, the 8-episode limited FX series from Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) that revolves around the my...
"Where is everybody?" That is the famous question about alien life posed by physicist Enrico Fermi (see: the Fermi Paradox): why have we not found evidence of e...
That Sheldrake clan are a talented bunch. We've covered news from 'maverick biologist' Rupert Sheldrake here on the Grail for the last couple of decades. Then ...
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The last half century has seen humanity take its first, t...
A big part of our culture, the global culture that is, lies in the process of ageing, of growing old. It’s difficult to edify, just how much of our lives are ...
On February 5th, 1971, Edgar Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the lunar surface. While this experience in itself would no doubt be transformative, o...
Now, we all know that octopuses are about as close as anything on Earth to being an alien species (or at the very least, minions of Cthulhu) - but still, watch...
We've spoken here on the Grail before about how, in the past century, advances in science and technology have suddenly gifted (or is that cursed?) us with the ...
Tales of civilization coming to a sudden end are as old as human civilization itself, from the Biblical tale of Noah through to Plato's story of Atlantis. And s...
