A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don’t even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage. “Not alive, but also not dead” My biology teacher back in the day said, “Probably, the best description for a virus would be a…
Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news – or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain. What if the great filter is simply a technological impossibility? What if, there are plenty of civilizations out…
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If you could decide today… how long do you want to live? “The end of biological aging would not mean the end of death in any way. It’s more like a Summer evening when you were a kid, and your mom called you inside. You just wanted to keep playing, have a little more fun…
It’s oddly ironic that if a sample of the sun’s core (probably the hottest thing in our solar system) were brought to earth, it would likely end with a small ice age. I get that it’s because the blast would sent material into the atmosphere, blocking the sun’s rays from reaching the surface, but still…
Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. This video was realised with the help of Dr. Alessandro Sfondrini and it was funded by SNSF under Agora Grant n. 171622 and through the NCCR SwissMAP: The Mathematics of Physics. I will never get over the…
Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day.. “Right now, universe is filled with stars, and we have…
What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights? “Humans have a history of denying that other beings are capable of suffering as they do.” I’d hope humanity would learn from its past mistakes and instead of oppressing those different from of us we finally accept new faces from…
In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization? One interestic aspect is that one reason the Western countries had a head start was their access to resources- many of them obtained through overexploitation, exploiting poor working conditions,…
Every year with their calendar release, I come back to watch this video too appreciate how far we’ve come as species. Makes me grateful and the concept brings unexplainable joy to my mind of staying our calendar 10,000 years before because that’s when we truly came together and started terraforming Earth I hope this becomes…