Robots that eat for fuel are dubbed “gastrobots” and are becoming a trend in the field…because apparently a good number of robotics engineers have the same bizarre fetish of being chewed and digested in the cold steel guts of metal beasts. There are a slew of Gastrobots existing in the world right now: The Chew-Chew [...]

The Earth is a gun and your country is a bullet. No, those aren’t poorly translated Japanese metal band lyrics; those words could be, terrifyingly enough, a completely accurate and literal statement. It’s all because of something called a Verneshot, and though the theory is still under debate, it is the only one so far [...]

Green Goo is the idea that the true danger of nanotechnology does not come from some perpetually reproducing destructive nano-bots run amok, but rather from the accidental uptake of nanotech by our environment.  Even if we assume humanity will use the technology cautiously and respectfully, we can’t forget that all new tech also affects the [...]

Changes in the environment don’t always function like a cancer, killing you slowly over a long period of time. Sometimes the environment just loses its damn mind, and that’s when stuff like a hypercane can occur. If the normal consequences of a shifting climate are akin to a metaphorical disease infecting the world, a hypercane’s [...]

There’s a disturbing trend already under way: The total sperm count of all males on the planet has dropped by half in just under fifty years. If this fertility trend persists at the current rate, another fifty years’ time may very well see the last human beings born on Earth. A sperm count of less [...]