In October last year, NASA announced its ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ program designed to settle humans on other worlds, starting with Mars in the 2030s.…
We are fortunate to live in a world in which many of the things that were once science fiction are now every day…
In an instance of art imitating life, the Science channel will examine what happens when scientific research goes too far in their new…
In a previous article we discussed the use of relativistic kill weapons: impactors travelling at almost the speed of light delivering enormous amounts…
There was excitement at the European Physics Society conference in Grenoble, France last week as physicists gathered to review evidence for the detection…
In the latest edition of Scientific American (August, 2011), Professor George Ellis asks the question “Does the Multiverse Really Exist?” There are many…
‘Star Wars: The Complete Saga’ doesn’t hit the stores until September 16th but you can get a sneak peak of the bonus footage…
If and when we encounter intelligent aliens, a new scientific discipline will spring into being: Exopsychology – the study of alien intelligence and personality.…
In 1957, at the height of the Cold War, statistician Jimmie Savage of the RAND institute was asked a scarily-intriguing question: ‘What is…
The current edition of The Economist (July 2nd, 2011) has a provocative cover story. With the retirement of the last space shuttle this…
This is an article in the continuing series on alien weapon systems. It’s a warm summer evening as Pete and Chloe walk hand…
In March 1955, Einstein wrote to the widow of his oldest friend, Michele Besso: “Now he has departed from this strange world a…
IBM, which just celebrated its centennial, announced that its Watson computer system was honored as the “Person Of The Year” at the 15th…
In Iain M. Banks’ Culture books, the Culture Minds are AIs possessing an intelligence far surpassing our own. Many people have speculated that…
Good news for all you Star Trek fans! EMS Exhibits, Inc. has acquired the licensing rights to the touring exhibit Star Trek: The…