How to be a real-life Mega-villain!

Have you ever wanted your own army? Pondered world domination? Thought that things are pretty fucked up and that you and people like you could probably do a better job than the crappy system that exists in the real world? Well then be at ease and be excited – it’s apparently easier than I had…

HoloDeck, Here We Come!

It’s not secret that I’m a fan of science fiction – but it’s the “why” that most non-fans don’t always understand about fan-atics for the genre like me. Well the truth has many facets including the flexibility and creativity it allows you over a tale set in a contemporary space, but the one that is…

The Fountain of Youth – IN SPACE!

This brilliant image, courtesy of NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows an interacting group contains several galaxies, along with a “cosmic fountain” of stars, gas and dust that stretches over 100 000 light-years. Resembling a pair of owl’s eyes, the two nuclei of the colliding galaxies can be seen in the process of merging at the…

[VIDEO] Science-cast: West Antarctic Ice Sheet in irreversible decline

The story behind the headlines on the “unstoppable” retreat of glaciers in part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. A new study led by NASA researchers shows that half-a-dozen key glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are in irreversible decline. The melting of these sprawling icy giants will affect global sea levels in the…

Supernova… Et tu, Eta Carinae.

As seen on Cosmos: Eta Carinae! At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and brighter, until, by April 1843, it was the second brightest star in the sky, outshone only by Sirius (which is almost…

Upgrading your immune system against HIV?

A gene therapy technique developed using mice that ‘upgrades’ the immune system to resist the HIV virus has been successfully trialled in humans. Some people are born with a very rare mutation that protects them from HIV by changing the structure of their immune cells. The therapy involves extracting a sample of HIV patients’ immune…