AN ICY-BLUE DOME STANDS AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A HARSH, RED LANDSCAPE. This mysterious frosty globe guards a band of pioneers against the unforgiving Martian environment. This isn’t a sci-fi story, buddy. This is NASA’s ambitious new concept for living on Mars. While working alongside a group of expert architects and designers from industry and academia, an unlikely material for building these chill-pads was proposed … Continue reading
IN A FARAWAY SOLAR SYSTEM awash with distant, milky stars smearing through velvety blackness, an exoplanet modestly named HD 131399Ab is treated to a boastful triple sunset. This little piece of paradise is located roughly 320 light-years from Earth, in the HD 131399 system in the constellation of Centaurus. The exoplanet Described as a gaseous, … Continue reading
THERE IS A NEW GLOBAL EPIDEMIC, it has kids and adults alike mindlessly roaming alleyways, searching dark bushes at night, and trespassing private property for that sweet, sweet hit. The other day I was a passenger in my brother’s car, cruising as we do. When out of nowhere one of the victims stepped in front … Continue reading
Well, this is awkward. Some of our Homo Sapien ancestors had sex with Neanderthals. We know this because a curious bunch of palaeontologists at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany decided to spool through Neanderthal genomes in 2010. However, we never quite understood the implications of such filthy, prehistoric debauchery. That’s where John Capra … Continue reading
By engaging in and embracing your phone’s personal linguistic glossary, is it possible you could also eliminate some of the responsibility of ‘confessing’ your true feelings and emotions, thus reducing the negative stigma of such a purge? After all, it’s just a silly message, right? Maybe not. Continue reading
The notion that robots will be specifically designed and hard-wired to fulfil their owners sexual desires means robot-sex could easily surpass human sex as the most popular kind of doin’ it. Continue reading
“A PORTION OF HONEYBEE BRAIN has been digitally reconstructed by a team of researchers, and it is flying a quadcopter across rooms. With nothing but the cognition of this buzzy brain intelligence, the drone is able to recognise checkerboard patterns on the wall and it can autonomously travel across the room and land gently on the ground.” Continue reading
“We find ourselves in a time where optimism for the future is out-shadowed by longing for the past. Futurism used to involve dreams of jetpacks, flying cars, invincibility, and endless technological and societal possibilities.” Continue reading
“A CROWD OF SCEPTICAL GRUMPS EYEBALL THE SUBJECT waiting for the facade to fracture. After participating in a number of experimental tasks, the subject should now be under the impression they are invisible.” Continue reading
“As Homer Jay Simpson sits on the hood of his car, watching the stars swipe across the night sky, deserted by his mother once more –pensive, despondent, and discarded – you begin to wonder if there’s more to this beer-swelling, boneheaded buffoon than first suspected.” Continue reading
