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"The delta is a good place for evidence of life to be deposited and then preserved for the billions of years that have elapsed since this lake was present." —Ken Farley, Mars 2020 project scientist at NASA's JPL

Kerry Sheridan | Phys.org

Organisers said thousands gathered in central London to demand the government take greater action on climate change.

BBC News

"Since people have been asking I thought I'd recap my #dystopia talk at @theuxcrunch from Thursday. The examples used are not what if scenarios. These all happened. #triggerwarning's apply. If you can make it thru to the end I have suggestions for how we can claw back some hope."

Daniel Harvey | via Twitter

Steve Braunias resumes his occasional series about preparing for Doomsday with a report on a strange trip to Sydney to interview a New Zealander who claims to be selling million-dollar bunkers and shelters.

Steve Braunias | NZ Herald

…he went from being one of America’s most prescient futurists to one of its ugliest reactionaries.

Scott Bradfield | Los AngelesTimes

…our problem is not confined to post-industrial-era CO₂ emissions (global warming, in any case, probably began with forest clearance for early agriculture), but insists that the Holocene was a freakish gift to humanity that we have exploited and taken for granted. We are now assisting at its funeral.

Peter Forbes | Aeon

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

Bill McKibben | The New Yorker

The wildfires that have laid waste to vast parts of California are presenting residents with a new danger: air so thick with smoke it ranks among the dirtiest in the world.

Julie Turkewitz and Matt Richtel | The New York Times

Ranking of countries’ goals shows even EU on course for more than double safe level of warming.

Jonathan Watts | The Guardian

The US is racing to devise the next generation of weapons. Will China beat them to it?

Katrina Manson | Financial Times

Feast your peepers on these artistic interpretations of a colonized cosmos.

Evan Nicole Brown | Atlas Obscura

We're just five years away from harnessing almost unlimited power from "miniature suns", some start-ups say: nuclear fusion reactors that could provide abundant, cheap and clean energy.

Emma Woollacott | BBC News

Richard Browning built the world's fastest personal jet suit. WIRED spoke with him to find out about the design process and engineering of a radical new form of transportation.

Via Wired | The Scene

On Monday, Zemeckis talked about the two projects: Bios, the upcoming feature film; and Project Blue Book, a television series that premieres in January on History.

Geoff Boucher | Deadline Hollywood

Using an AI design process, engineers at software company Autodesk and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory came up with a new interplanetary lander concept that could explore distant moons like Europa and Enceladus.

Loren Grush | The Verge

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The page is at the whims of the weather—a sunny day allows the website to run at full capacity; rainy days can drain the battery to the point where the page won’t load at all.

Liz Stinson | AIGA Eye on Design