WORMHOLES

A truly mind-bending visual conundrum that will say much about how you think.

"We are very much on the starting line on this. This is very exciting. This is really the time when ideas are flitting all over the place."

Google Moon

Although it's kind of terrifying that Google is extending its tendrils into space, Google Moon is an incredible web app, the result of a collaboration with NASA.

Real-Life Andromeda Strain

One excited radio reporter said: "They think they've found spacemen."

Earth May Survive

What wonderful news. There is new hope that Earth, if not the life on it, might survive an apocalypse five billion years from now.

At least we've done SOMETHING right

Excellent photo gallery over at Wired of the 30 years of Voyager Spacecraft's mind-numbingly beautiful images of the cosmos. This makes me want to throw up, it's so good.

THE NET

Incredible German documentary about Ted Kaczynski, LSD, the history of the Internet, digerati, technology, mathematics, utopianism, Ken Kesey, Heinz von Foerster, and CIA mind-control experiments. SO GOOD.

Human-animal line blurred

Plans to allow British scientists to create human-animal embryos in order to pursue stem-cell research are expected to be approved tomorrow by the government's fertility regulator.

Video: NASA tests new rocket fuel in the Mojave

Great Scott! This new methane-based rocket fuel looks genuinely "futuristic."

Is Extraterrestrial Life Just Dust?

Physicists have just revealed evidence that inorganic dust particles in space can self-organize in a way that might classify them as "alive."