If you were to draw up a list of all the important milestones in the history of our species, what would be at the top of that list?    Wou...

With DNA editing we can improve the way our bodies function.    With robotic enhancements, we will be able to do things no human can do.    ...

  What is it really like to live in the International Space Station?    Do you envy the people who go there?   You have to stay for about 6 ...

  There are many strange places in space, and we are beginning to send artists into it.  Last month 4 artists went into space, in the coming...

One day soon you may be able to rent a drone for a while and see the world as the drone sees it.  You could fly through the Grand Canyon or ...

Is it inevitable that people will want to upgrade themselves as technology progresses and possibilities open?  If you lose an arm you will w...

GeekSpeak – How I stopped worrying and started to love finance! Everything you always wanted to know about finance but were afraid ...

In time will we all become vegetarian?  Or vegan?  What are the advantages of being a vegetarian?  It might be the best way to ...

It has been many years since Drake produced his equation about how many intelligent, technological aliens there could be in the univers...

In a few years from now self-driving electric cars will be a reality.  What will our cities be like?  Will there be more cars or fewer?...

Sports tend to become more and more extreme and a lot of science is involved so that people can achieve new records.  Is it time ...

Africa is the second largest continent, with 54 countries and a very young and rapidly expanding population.  At present it is sufferi...

Nowadays most of us are less worried about nuclear weapons than we were in the last century.  But is that reasonable?  The danger is stil...

Let’s suppose we could somehow scientifically prove that there are no aliens in the rest of the universe?  Would we lose interest in sp...

Are we approaching a transhumanist future where we will have new senses?  Given DNA modification and technology, will we sense radiati...

Recently a report came out that stated that we will be extinct in 2050.  Could that really happen?  What threatens us?  The death of in...

Do you look forward to a time when the world will be just one state, with one government?  Or do you think there will always be borders...

Bitcoin is nearing 10k US dollars this week, so it is a good moment for all of us to get up to speed with what is happening in the cryp...

Insects – we dislike most of them or regard them as a nuisance.  But we need them, all of them.  We need them as pollinators and as food ...

What will humans become once we venture out of the earth’s protective environment? Will humans be carefully chosen for all colonizing mi...