Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker.

Caroline Haskens | Motherboard

Last week, the Petersen Automotive Museum of Los Angeles opened a massive new exhibit: Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy, which includes more than 50 vehicles from throughout science fiction movie history, along with other props and memorabilia.

Andrew Liptak | The Verge

The long view of humanity — a series that aims to stand back from the news cycle and widen the lens of our current place in time.

BBC Future

"That was then. This is now."

The Center for PostNatural History is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge relating to the complex interplay between culture, nature, and biotechnology. Our mission is to acquire, interpret, and provide access to a collection of living, preserved, and documented organisms of postnatural origin.

“It’s not the phone or Facebook that are doing the magic. It’s the words that we’re saying, the rituals that we’re doing and it’s enough to look each other in the eye for the ritual to work.”

The power of the Internet has allowed Romania’s busy witch community to gradually migrate their ancient practices onto the Web.

Emily Wither | Reuters

Russian media reported that the 184 m-long submarine is designed to operate six Poseidon weapons and it is also believed to have an underwater dock beneath its hull to allow the launch of mini-submarines and multimission UUVs.

Tim Ripley | Jane's Defence Weekly

"My Family Exhibition" started in 2005 as an exhibition event where designers and artists create labels for game cartridges. The exhibition started with 23 volunteers who are related to METEOR, which is also an exhibition hall.

3D Bioprinting Solutions, a Russian bio-technical research laboratory, has announced plans to collaborate with scientists from the U.S. and Israel to deliver muscular tissue biomaterials to the International Space Station (ISS) in September as part of a microgravity 3D bioprinting experiment.

Anas Essop | 3D Printing Industry

For science, profit, and pride, China, the U.S., and private companies are hunting for resources on the lunar surface.

Rivka Galchen | The New Yorker

The software, called PlanetNet, mapped out a monster 2008 Saturn storm system in detail using data gathered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which studied the ringed planet up close from 2004 through 2017.

Mike Wall | Space.com

Set in London around 2050, 'Mitigation of Shock' is a pragmatic experiment practicing hope for a future disrupted by climate change.

Full documentation of the project + accompanying film.

Superflux

Inferi is a font family drew with a monk’s pen. Possessed by the evil beings whom dwell within, it is a tool made to speak the words which will end the world.

Two styles, Roman & Italic, 26 fonts available.

Blaze Type Foundry

Musician Zac Bentz outlines his process, sharing outtakes and the final sound for Warren Ellis' new animated television production ident.

The Intercept launches “A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a seven-minute film narrated by the congresswoman and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

Naomi Klein | The Intercept

"We are introducing a brand-new, lifelike material concept powered by its very own artificial metabolism. We are not making something that’s alive, but we are creating materials that are much more lifelike than have ever been seen before."

Tristan Greene | TNW

The designer behind Acronym—the cutting-edge fashion coveted by legions of fans like John Mayer and sci-fi wizards like William Gibson—is making clothes for the end of the world.

Chris Gayomali and Nikita Teryoshin | GQ

“The fact that an apparently stable, cold-based glacier suddenly went from moving 20 meters per year to 20 meters per day was extremely unusual, perhaps unprecedented,” said Willis. “The numbers here are simply nuts. Before this happened, as far as I knew, cold-based glaciers simply didn’t do that...couldn’t do that.”

NASA Earth Observatory

From prehistoric cave paintings to buried nuclear waste, underground spaces record how humans have lived. To explore Underland means voyaging into the deep past – and raises urgent questions about our planet’s future.

Robert Macfarlane | The Guardian