Author Archives: Rob Boyle

Anti-Star Trek: A Theory of Posterity Life began with a planetary mega-organism Metal as light as air “Boneless,” squid-inspired, walking soft robots Diamond planets may not be life’s best friend

Cooking in space 12 reasons we haven’t found extraterrestrials Keeping AIs in a box (video link) Nine substances than induce fear, anxiety, and dread Inside the mind of an octopus

Some black holes may be older than time Drug detection via fingerprint scans Darkest known exoplanet Artificial skin from spider silk Three potential new dwarf planets discovered

Dolphins have electroreception organs The ethics of animal enhancement Mining gas on Uranus A new map of the galactic habitable zone Astronomer’s find Earth’s first Trojan asteroid

Acoustic cloaking devices Anissimov argues AI over IA (intelligence amplification) Aww yeah, hoverbikes The cybernetic singularity Designer psychologies: moving beyond neurotypicality