According to NASA, interstellar travel will be viable by 2200

Marc G. Millis, NASA’s leading expert on Breakthrough Propulsion Physics, has published a paper that speculates about when we can expect to make our first trip to another star. You can find the paper here. Sanity Warning: Its speculation, please digest with a few grains of salt. OK, so what he has done is to … Read more

Synthetic proteins

Wow, now this is truly exciting … a team of Princeton University scientists led by professor Michael Hecht have constructed for the first time artificial proteins that enable the growth of living cells. The team have actually created genetic sequences never before seen in nature, and so they have now shown that they can produce … Read more

Climate Change Feedback loops

The Guardian has, what it is calling “The Ultimate Climate Change FAQ”, and today somebody has just updated the answer to one of the questions … its really quite interesting … well OK, all answers are, it just so happens that today’s caught my eye. The question is “What are Climate Change Feedback loops?” … … Read more