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Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 7:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth | WIRED
The mouse didn't look like much. It had the same red beady eyes and white fur as any other laboratory mouse. Sure, its DNA had been tweaked to make it ideal…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Viruses may exist ‘elsewhere in the universe’, warns scientist | Infectious diseases…
The Covid pandemic has already turned life as we know it upside down – and no doubt prompted some people to want to leave the planet. Now a leading scientist has…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Kinja
I was raised in a household in which my mother, a divorced old-school feminist, openly hoped for the day when the “racist, angry old white men,” who keep our country in…

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Organisms are not passive recipients of evolutionary forces | Aeon Essays
Humans are shaping the evolutionary future of life on Earth.

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Bookmark Viruses are not just threats, but actors in evolution’s long story |…
Wisdom is the ability to discern inner qualities and subtle relationships, then translate them into what others recognise as good judgment. If it comes to us at all, wisdom is the…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark The biological research putting purpose back into life | Aeon Essays
Animal immune systems depend on white blood cells called macrophages that devour and engulf invaders.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo
In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Coral found to prefer eating microplastic to natural food
Astrangia. Credit: Stephen Cairns et al. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary, ZooKeys (2012). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612. Creative Commons…

July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Robots Help Bees Talk to Fish - IEEE Spectrum
I am honestly not sure whether fish have any concept of bees. I am equally unsure whether bees have any concept of fish. I am even more unsure whether bees and…

March 30 2019, 6:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Natural’s Not in It — Real Life
If the 20th century promised better living through chemistry, the 21st century has promised better living through digital technology.

March 23 2019, 8:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? - The New…
It has eight arms, three hearts — and a plan. Scientists aren’t sure how the cephalopods got to be so intelligent. To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis
At the end of last year, scientists discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps not the…

June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments
Bookmark Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future | Science |…
In 1981, a remarkable book was published: After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon.

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg
I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark We Are All Aliens - Journal #91 May 2018 - e-flux
You’re on the Spaceship Earth […] You’d better pay your fare now You’ll be left behind You’ll be left hangin’ In the empty air You won’t be here and you won’t…

May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments
Bookmark Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild…
Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6…

May 24 2018, 3:47am | Comments
Bookmark What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of…

March 19 2018, 12:27pm | Comments
Bookmark The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology | Quanta Magazine
The Western Ghats in India rise like a wall between the Arabian Sea and the heart of the subcontinent to the east.

January 12 2018, 3:11am | Comments
Bookmark How Squids Communicate
Cephalopods loom large in our cultural mythos.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark What constitutes an individual organism in biology? | Aeon Essays
When she was two years old, I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History for the first time. As we strolled through the displays of taxidermy animals, she…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine
The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

August 17 2017, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics…
The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics.

August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments
Additivism #Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens,...
Additivism Workshop: Designing Post-Natural Futures (Athens, 10-11 Jun 2017) 12:00-18:00 - Diplareios School (Theatrou sq 3, Athens centre)This #additivism workshop led by Daniel Rourke and Geraldine Juárez invites us to an exploration of post-natural history, geo-history and Mediterranean world-ecologies, emphasizing critical perspectives driven from…

June 2 2017, 5:06am | Comments
Bookmark A Grand New Theory of Life's Evolution on Earth - The Atlantic
A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

May 20 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living |…
Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place. After disrupting the way we love, communicate, travel, work, and even eat, technologists believe they can solve the…

March 25 2017, 7:49am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Can Now "Print" Genetic Code and Engineer Life
We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me. Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite…

February 14 2017, 11:08am | Comments
Bookmark Towards a statistical mechanics of consciousness: maximization of number of connections is…
Authors: R. Guevara Erra, D. M. Mateos, R. Wennberg, J.L. Perez Velazquez Abstract: It has been said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In the case of brain activity, and…

October 23 2016, 4:56am | Comments
Bookmark Are Humans Creating More Species Than We’re Killing? - The Atlantic
People might be behind a speciation boom that cancels out the extinction crisis—but that’s not necessarily good news. The tunnels of the London Underground are hot, dark, and damp. Crowds of…

October 16 2016, 7:47am | Comments

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