Which aliens from the world of Hollywood most fascinate the experts?
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Body Modification | Transhumanism
We’ve already started becoming cyborgs, here’s how easy it is now.
For space exploration and colonization to succeed, we need to overcome taboos, consider human needs and desires.
Neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal, but a new kind of living, programmable organism.
Within the last decade astronomers have discovered about a dozen terrestrial-sized exoplanets.
Individuals who upload their DNA test results to databases may not have much control over how it’s used.
As natural disasters become more commonplace, is there a point at which we will become too distressed by the real to reproduce it as entertaining spectacle?
The unusual flare came from a binary star system – two stars orbiting each other – in our own galaxy.
The technique is officially called emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR).
University of Sheffield | Science Fiction
A team of PhD students at the Univ. of Sheffield have used mathematics to work out the best way to survive an uprising of the undead.
Author’s study shows that engaging with a science-rich TV program can have an inspiring effect on a person’s attitudes toward science.
The thoughts of animals are like the sentences of an unfamiliar language. They completely unlike the way that our language is composed from words.
An examination of sixth fingers hints at what our body—and mind—is capable of.
ABC News Australia | Chernobyl
“I wouldn’t say that another Chernobyl is not possible.” -Iryana Holovko
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
How does contemporary sci-fi respond to the pressures what many environmentalists see as a dying planet in the real world?
Some of the sci-fi disaster movie scenarios that are plausible might surprise you.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
Science fiction is full of warnings and we should be careful to take heed.
Science Fiction | Futurecasting
If it were possible to download the neural networks of a human brain, could we preserve a computer simulation of that person?
Science Fiction | Futurecasting
Genetic modification, space stations, wind power, artificial wombs, video phones, wireless internet, and cyborgs were all foreseen by “futurologists” from the 1920s and 1930s.
EU project creates robotic hands that can sense and fix damage without human intervention.
Rapid advances in digital technologies will ensure that misinformation arrives in unexpected formats and with varying levels of sophistication.
If human-animal hybrids become more like us than non-human animals, it could then be argued that it’s unethical to produce a hybrid simply for the purposes of extracting its organs.
The Hollywood Reporter | Immortality
By undergoing the latest in genetic & medical testing, the film & TV producer hopes to cheat death or dementia indefinitely.
A new report claims that jailed billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was working on turning himself into a transhuman superman.
By comparing plants with organisms with mental processes that look like our own, have we made it impossible to recognize a consciousness different to ours?
The research could eventually lead to new sources of organs for transplant, but ethical and technical hurdles need to be overcome.
Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralyzed patients.
Let’s look to technologies like blockchain and other innovations to keep our data private.
