Climate change and population growth direct our civilization to migrate to other planets, warn NASA scientists. The human population will need to colonize three planets to survive, said Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist from the Langley Research Center of NASA. "The whole ecosystem is crashing. Essentially, we are too many out…
Technology that allows us to reach the nearest planets is already in our hands, and a former astronaut Jeff Hoffman thinks that we must colonize other planets for the sake of our long-term survival. Hoffman is one of about five hundred people who lived through the unique experience of seeing…
As a result of the significant global climate changes, life conditions on Earth will become much poorer in the coming decades, warn scientists. American journalists gained access to the draft of the annual report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reported that: In the 21st century, adverse…
What will our world look like in a hundred years? MIT economist Daron Acemoglu asked that question when he was waiting for his son's birth. His most recent work examines the political, social, and economic trends of the last hundred years, and then extrapolates them into the future. Acemoglu drew…
Besides the traditional economic issues, such topics as the application of genetic engineering technology, artificial prolongation of human life, and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life were discussed this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In the opinion of scientists, in the near future, medical science will possibly…
From flying cars, food in pill form, and volatile devices to time travel, teleportation, and cyborgs... All these amazing ideas from sci-fi movies and books have not become a reality yet. Let's look at fascinating futuristic predictions we are anxiously waiting for but apparently, in vain. 10 Futuristic Predictions That…
Jack London wrote his novel The Scarlet Plague 100 years ago. It is one of the first dystopias in the history of the literature and one of his most famous works, published in London Magazine in 1912. The plot of The Scarlet Plague seems quite straightforward. At the beginning of…
Science is expected to give answers to the important and the unimportant phenomena that take place around us, and the truth is that most of the time, it does not disappoint us. But there still remain mysteries that even the greatest scientists do not have an explanation for. Here are…
