The world is changing. Luminous fires consume Californian woods. Sweltering temperatures reach even the most unexpected places as preparations are made to phase out the production of new gas-powered vehicles in the next few decades. The future is magnetic and electric, no longer powered by smoldering coal or the pungent smell of petroleum. As we begin to adapt using innovative and cleaner energy, there is one technology coming back from the past — powerful, carbon-free, long-lasting. Mounting interest in this reinvented technology aims to solve one of the biggest problems facing our transition towards cleaner energy.

That problem, of course…

The longest collection of fossilized footprints ever found were unearthed in the ethereal, sun-flooded stretch of New Mexico land known as White Sands National Park. Stretching for about a mile, the set of prints tells a far more elaborate story than what had been the longest footprint set prior to its discovery — a track stretching just about 1/10th of a mile in Northern Tanzania. Only the footprints in New Mexico allow researchers to follow the journey of an individual across large distances, revealing a story of intrepidness through dangerous terrain. …

Over 90% of atoms in the universe belong to a single element. It’s the element responsible for the Solar System’s largest ocean — a vast and vaporous sea somewhere beneath Jupiter’s turbulent cloud cover. And yet this Jovian ocean is made not of water, but is instead a deep chasm of liquid metallic hydrogen. The conditions needed to create liquid metallic hydrogen are too extreme for us to simulate in our laboratories here on Earth, though we do have access to hydrogen in its less extreme gas and liquid form. …

The series culminated with Rhythm 0, or what can surely be described as one of the world’s most profound and yet horrifying pieces of art. All of the performances in the Rhythm series were meant to test the limits of the human body, beginning with knife-play in the first performance and gradually mounting to the destruction and seduction of the final piece. The artist Marina Abramovic sought to give an authentic exploration of the body — consciousness and unconsciousness, its corporeal pain, its pleasure, its ability to reveal facets of humanity and womanhood.

Rhythm 10 began with 20 knives. Marina…

What is the single biggest obstacle facing space exploration today? What is the one thing preventing us from setting up sprawling settlements, venturing farther into the Solar System, and opening up the universe not only to the ultra-rich, but to all of us with a desire to journey deep into the cosmos? It’s not a matter of understanding physics, nor is it a matter of engineering. We already know exactly what we need to do. The biggest problem preventing us from colonizing our star system is cost.

Depending on which estimates you use, it runs about $10,000 per pound to…

Envision this: there is a technology currently undergoing testing that, when released to the public, will become a long-awaited revolution in energy. This new technology promises to be safer and more efficient than anything we have on the market now. It will affect that which we consider mundane — power tools, toys, laptops, smartphones — and that which we consider exceptional — medical devices, spacecraft, and the innovative new vehicle designs needed to wean us off of fossil fuels. We have known about this technology for centuries, yet until now we have only been able to take small steps towards…

What happens when the sweeping wave of technological progress meets our understanding of atomic physics? Manipulating atoms has, up until now, allowed us to make powerful bombs, computers, power plants, and the impressive works of art we call particle accelerators. Yet these feats are small in comparison to what lies ahead. As both our technology and our understanding of the atomic realm grow, humanity will enter a new era: an industrial revolution changing everything from our space exploration to the very lifespan of a human being. No era before has been quite so fantastical — none so near the magical…

The body itself is a cheery candy red with a distinctive new-car gleam. Bold silver letters along the back spell the name “Nucleon”. The Ford Nucleon, to be exact. At the time of its creation it was unlike any car ever seen in the world — old-fashioned, and at the same time futuristic in the way only designs of the 50’s could be.

In this, the height of the Atomic Age, the car has been specially designed to run on none other than nuclear power. The metal circle on the rear of the car is to host the power capsule…