The story of humanity is a story of adaptation. Over the past 200,000 years, ever since the first modern humans (Homo sapiens) appeared in Africa, people have been spreading outward from that continent in every possible direction. As they encountered new environments and challenges, our ancestors had to change in many ways to survive.

New dangers meant that only the physically strongest or smartest humans tended to live long enough to pass on their genes.

We began our journey through evolutionary time as a species just over 200,000 years ago on the continent of Africa: Homo sapiens lived in small…

A fully-automated Earth in which robots work with humanity in every conceivable way has been imagined a million times over in science fiction books, film, games and television. …

There are certain years in the history of the world that are transformative in ways that impact nearly every aspect of society. These are years that we think of in terms of “before” and “after”. As a brief exercise while you peruse the following list, imagine how our world might be different if any of the events had never occurred at all, or if they had happened many years earlier or later.

BC:

100000: Humans first migrate out of Africa into Europe, the Middle East and Asia

50000: First sailing ships invented

14000: Humans migrate across the Bering land bridge…

To most of us, our world is simply the place where we live: you’re born, get an education and/or learn a trade, perhaps start a family of your own, pass on some of the knowledge and wisdom you have gained to others, grow old and eventually die. It’s an oversimplification, but that is the common experience of a human on planet Earth. Earth is just where we do “everything”. If you are very lucky, you have opportunities to actually travel around the Earth and visit continents other than the one you were born on, seeing the true vastness of the…

As we progress into a future where science unlocks keys to living longer and healthier lives, we also need to be wary of the fears and misunderstandings many people have regarding the technology behind these advances.

As evangelists of life extension and longevity tech, we need to do our best to help spread knowledge that can assuage these fears while encouraging others to continue seeking out new research.

Several of the most commonly-mentioned of these misconceptions, and some supported arguments against them, include:

Increased longevity will make the problems of aging worse

As human longevity technology gives people added decades of active life, what we see as modern detriments…

The cutting edge field of physics known as quantum mechanics is the new “rocket science” for the 21st century. The study of the quantum has been a wellspring of new understanding as we work to understand the often weird behavior of the smallest particles of matter that make up the universe around us.

Computer scientists are currently working around the world to take advantage of this inherent quantum power to develop quantum computing technology. The scientific and business communities see vast possibilities for quantum computing (QC), but although entanglement is a proven concept there are still many pieces of the…

Your body is a high-performance race car, and your brain is the driver.

The two, at their peak, become one, and can only achieve at the highest levels when working together.

I’ve never driven a Formula One car (though I might try that someday), but I’ve driven half a dozen pickup trucks and SUVs, three model years of Chevy Nova, a Saturn, two model years of Corvette, an H2, a Lexus, a Mustang, a semi, a Suzuki Drz 400e and an Oldsmobile minivan. The closer you get to the road and the faster you go, the more important it is…

Gravity, one of the four fundamental physical forces that hold the universe as we know it together (along with electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force), is something that we witness and feel the effects of everyday. At the highest level, it’s the force responsible for the visible structure of our world, the Solar System, the Milky Way galaxy and the entire cosmos as far as we can see with our telescopes.

Perhaps nowhere is the full power of gravity so well represented as it is in the form of what we have come to call black…