Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# science
As official approval of lab-grown meat looms on the horizon, it’s a good time to rethink how we feed ourselves and why we need to make a change sooner rather than later.
# tech
Hyperloop designers are dreaming big, which is admirable. What’s less admirable is their failure to dream of practical solutions to real world problems.
# tech
Imagine a computer the size of a solar system, powered by a star and built for speed. It sounds impressive, but it may not be as good of an idea as it may seem.
# tech
Robots are now making their way to one of the oldest and most important human occupations: farming. And further automation of agriculture will have serious consequences.
# space
Meet the first independent human nation in space. Without an actual presence in space and an iffy plan for how to get there...
# tech
George Dvorsky decided to try some myth-busting about the future of AI and the nature of the technology. The end result needs a lot of myth-busting of its own...
# space
Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
# tech
A dive into the limitations of using an artificial neural network to reanimate yourself inside a computer.
# politics
It's possible that astronauts living on Mars would eventually form their own sovereign government. And one astrobiologist really wants to speed up this process.
# tech
Nuclear engines in commercial aircraft would be a slow motion environmental disaster without a huge leap in shielding technology.