As we strive to move civilization into orbit and beyond, we have many more challenges to overcome — Ever since Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon in 1969, our collective dream to somehow keep those boots planted somewhere other than terrestrial soil has been in overdrive. Science fiction and real science have fed off of one another in all the decades since, spiraling us into some future…

The destiny of life on Earth has been forever altered by our presence. Now, we have even more power than before… — In 2019, a group of Spanish and Chinese biologists have reported their successful work in creating monkey-human hybrid “chimaeras” created by inserting human cells into monkey embryos in an effort to prove we can grow possible transplantable organs for humans in other species. Also in China, geneticists have used similar…

Some of our cosmic cousins may live just next door beneath a crust of ice… — Jupiter, a gas giant and the most massive world in our Solar System, has 79 moons. Fourth-largest of these is Europa, at 3,100 kilometers in diameter. The small world is bigger than Pluto but smaller than our own Moon. What makes Europa truly special is that it very likely may…

Will autonomous vehicles make the roads safer? — In China, a Tesla Model S in “autopilot” mode crashed into a semi-truck, killing the Tesla driver, in 2016. Another fatal Model S crash occurred while in autopilot in Florida a few months later. In early March 2018, a self-driving Uber just hit and injured a woman in Scottsdale, AZ…

As we replace and enhance human effort with that of machines, how much will society change? — The drone attack claimed by Yemeni rebels on key Saudi Arabian oil refineries that took place on September 14, 2019 has brought the powerful technology back into the news. Unfortunately, the strikes that disrupted roughly 5% of the world’s oil supply has also contributed more ammunition to the overarching negative…

One of our greatest realizations about the universe has been that most of it cannot be directly observed… — Dark matter and dark energy make up the vast majority of our universe, and yet we can’t really perceive them. However, we have ways to perceive their influence, and it’s as wide-reaching as dark matter and energy are. All matter as we know it, from muons, electrons and atoms all…

An exclusive interview with Clay AIR co-founder Thomas Amilien — Touchless technology is not a new concept at its core. Indeed, ever since the first remote-controlled race car was made by Italian electronics company Elettronica Giocattoli in 1966, we’ve been enjoying some form of it. But with the wondrous advent of 3D environments and virtual reality powered by the exponential…

The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold and we continue to unravel. — 2020: The Year We Locked Down A new pandemic was going to happen, given time. There was really nothing we could have done to prevent it. A terrible virus or bacterium could have emerged from any number of places. The taiga of northern Asia and the glaciers of Greenland are melting away at an accelerating rate…

An exclusive interview with the venture capital guru and author of a new book on the artificial intelligence revolution in business — Ash Fontana is a Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in “pre-traction, post-data” startups with B2B products and an AI-first model, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to help businesses run better. Prior to Zetta, Fontana founded and sold an airline customer analytics company…