- Researchers create all-seeing eye
- Desktop atom-smashers
- Futuristic pre-cog checkpoints
- Deciphering dolphin language
- Mystery flash in space
End of the Week, End of the World 01-03-09
The recent earth-shaking going on over at Yellowstone may be foreshadowing a mega-eruption that could have a catastrophic climate impact, equivalent to a major asteroid strike.
What Will Change Everything?
This year's Edge question — "What will change everything?" — has been posted. The answers always make for fascinating reading, and of course with this question many of them involve the various transhumanist technologies we detail in Eclipse Phase, such as AI and nanofabrication. Check it out.
Five for the Future 12-23-08
- Using nano to control the weather ... and more
- The failures of voice print biometrics
- Placebo gene discovered
- New blast-protection adhesive
- Sex-chip stimulates pleasure center of brain
End of the Week, End of the World 12-19-08
Sure, our sun won't go nova for a million years, but what are we going to do if someone or something ignites a fusion reaction inside a gas giant like Saturn or Jupiter, turning it into a giant bomb?
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