Is the VR Universe in Ready Player One Possible?
In 2018, nearly everything is in place for a descent into a Ready Player One-style dystopia.
In 2018, nearly everything is in place for a descent into a Ready Player One-style dystopia.
There’s a difference between being “not evil” and “good.”
What some people think of as “facial weight gain” might in fact be something else—and that is, sad to say, not even the half of what’s in store for nearly all of us.
The animal experts we spoke to provided a diverse set of contenders, any one of which is gross enough to potentially claim that title.
The good news is, you can definitely hear without them—but, for a number of reasons, you might want to think twice before pulling a Van Gogh.
Are there planets out there that could, plausibly, harbour vast quarries of Vibranium-like materials? And if not, how far along are we in inventing those materials?
It turns out, animals do have some sense of whether they’ve won or lost a given game, despite not quite knowing what a game actually is.
The human body has ways of keeping us alive even in punishingly cold temperatures.
Will we ever be able to upload our minds into other bodies? More importantly, should we?
Regret was baked into Bitcoin from the beginning.
We asked a spread of government officials, scientists and the police how we should act if we were ever to come across real, genuine alien life, or signs thereof.
While scientists still haven’t pinpointed exactly what causes it, there are some compelling theories out there.
A question we all asked ourselves at least once over the holidays, after that millionth serving of turkey.
Have we blown past that number, or can we pack a few billion more in here before the whole thing falls apart?
Cute? Definitely. Tasty? Maybe.
Is this obscene injustice some quirk of evolution, or just our bodies' way of reminding us that they could kill us at any moment?
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