THE FIRST PERSON TO LIVE TO 1000 YEARS OLD MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN BORN, says gerontologist Dr. Aubrey de Grey. According to de Grey, age itself is a disease. And the cure is close. “We are working to develop medicines that will bring ageing under true medical control,” says de Grey, former professor at Cambridge University … Continue reading
THE TIME TRAVEL RECORD is held by retired cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who trumps us all with 23 milliseconds more reality than you or I. Yes, it’s a stretched qualification for ‘time traveller’ — the sharper way to put it is that for Krikalev, time has been slightly dilated. Slowed down, as it were, leaving him … Continue reading
— Billy Wright SCIENTISTS STUDYING MICROSCOPIC LIFE IN SEAWATER have found, what we laypeople might call, a tiny floating eyeball. Just as with our own eyes, the creature is fitted with a lens, cornea and retina. But what’s remarkable is that it’s all inside the one cell. Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) had … Continue reading
— Billy Wright HUMANS ALLURED by the dreams of an android. Or at least, by the visions of image-recognition software with an artificial neurology. They’ve been shared rampant across the internet, you may have noticed: photographs of once people now becoloured with a psychedelic rash, their eyebrows shorn but with new eyes sprouting from the … 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
At 5 milliseconds the Subject didn’t notice a hidden message placed between the slides. But they seem to have felt it: “MOMMY AND I ARE ONE”. Continue reading
