Can Brain Implants Stop School Shootings, Or Are They Causing Them?

June 12, 2014
In the wake of yet more bloodshed in our educational establishments during the past few weeks, a chilling map has been created that illustrates the full extent of the school shooting phenomena in the United States. The map shows a... continued

Free-Wheeling, Fuel-Free, Flying Cars? Space-Age Travel Really Has Arrived

June 11, 2014
The future of motoring is about to change radically. In the future, there should be no need for noisy, fuel-guzzling vehicles that belch damaging fumes into our precious atmosphere, pounding our roads and harming our environment, as advances in science... continued

Wormholes Could Be Space-Time “Postboxes”

June 11, 2014
Have you ever regretted a missed opportunity to send a message to someone? Did you think that your life may well have been different if you had communicated certain things, and you would give anything to re-live that moment again?... continued

Battery Hens Could Receive Matrix-Style Life Enhancement Technology

June 10, 2014
Of all the intensively-farmed creatures, battery hens probably have the worst deal when it comes to quality of life, but science may have provided a technological answer to provide an enhanced quality of life for these birds. Public concern has... continued

Weekender: The Humble Honey Bee – Could Their Extinction Threaten Mankind’s Future?

June 6, 2014
The humble honey bee, so small and insignificant. Yet could the possible extinction of this tiny creature have a severe and profound impact on our future? Bee populations have been slowly dwindling for decades, threatened by a variety of different... continued

Subliminal Messages in the Media: How Prevalent – and Dangerous – Are they?

June 5, 2014
In the news today: a Japanese woman has just divorced her husband because...he didn't like the Disney movie "Frozen." This bizarre snippet of news inspires the question: why has this movie inspired such global acclaim, even bordering on obsession in... continued

By Royal Appointment? Queen’s Speech Sanctions Fracking on Private Land in U.K.

June 5, 2014
Fracking, the increasingly controversial method of extracting gas from underground reserves, is now getting a boost from a change in trespassing laws in the United Kingdom. The 2014 Queen's Speech has announced today that an infrastructure and competitiveness bill will... continued

Scientists Create Effective “Tractor Beams” Using Sound

June 3, 2014
Fans of space sagas Star Wars and Star Trek will be very familiar with "tractor beams," the projected force-fields utilised by spaceports, planetary bases, space stations, and star-ships to lock onto crafts and guide them to a safe designated landing... continued

Scientists Creating Human Hybrids in Unregulated Genetic Engineering Programmes

June 3, 2014
When most people think of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, pictures of pest-hardy soya beans spring to mind, yet the true implications of this term are not widely considered. Though the consumption of GMOs is a subject for debate in... continued

Weekender: Do Our Brains Need Their Own Bill of Rights?

May 30, 2014
In this age of performance augmentation, rumors of cognitive enhancement therapies abound. Loosely defined, certain types of cognitive enhancers are available to us all without needing to visit the doctor or a drug-dealer; the vast majority of the world's inhabitants... continued