Earth & Energy

The Future of Life Institute sat down with climate scientists to discuss a variety of topics concerning climate change.

Here’s What Real Climate Scientists Have to Say About Global Warming

In this climate, it's important that the voices of actual climate science are heard.

Hard Science

It was originally understood that our universe harbored two hundred billion galaxies – but this estimate was wrong – it contains two trillion. 
In 2018, NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space telescope, a much more powerful successor to the Hubble, which could tell us even more about the distant reaches of our universe. 

We Were Just Thrust Into a New Age in Astronomy

And science will never be the same.

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Sci-Fi Visions

What makes a science fiction story? What's the big deal about science fiction? How can we use storytelling to explore questions about the future of the human race? 

Where Does Science Fiction Meet Science Fact?

What is science fiction, and how can we use it to predict the future? 

Op-Ed

Where is humanity going from here? We should have been building homes on Mars by the end of the 20th century, right? What hope is there for the longevity of the Human race? There is reason to be optimistic...

The Future of Humanity: Do We Have a Chance?

Will our next steps be to the stars, or are we a dying species?

Off World

We laugh at people who believe that the Earth is flat, but do you really know how to determine the shape of our planet? Being a scientist and a skeptic means independently verifying the evidence. 

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