Thousands of working satellites orbit the Earth — and alongside them, many times more of their dead remains. Retired satellites, spent rocket stages, fragments from…
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Since November 2022, when generative models reached the general public, one question has returned more often than any other: will artificial intelligence take people’s jobs?…
What Is Mind Uploading, Anyway? Mind uploading — sometimes called whole-brain emulation or digital immortality — is the idea that one day we might transfer…
What Are Technosignatures? Technosignatures — literally “technological traces” — are any observable evidence of a technological civilization beyond Earth. NASA defines them as any observable…
In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy called a press conference of a kind that rarely happens. The director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory announced…
It takes just a single glance at an old photograph. Wrinkles, gray hair, a smile etched with life’s experiences. We see wisdom in them, but…
The human brain as a tunable system: sleep, focus and memory shaped by diet, light or faint electrical impulses. A fringe experiment until recently, now…
A night. Not the one you know from the city, illuminated by the orange glow of streetlights. A true night—dark and deep, scattered with millions…
Even in the 19th century, people feared that new technologies would flood young minds with dangerous illusions and erode their ability to tell fact from fiction.…
When the Big Ear radio telescope picked up a narrowband radio signal from deep space on 15 August 1977—famously dubbed the “Wow!” signal (identified by…