World happiness levels are at their lowest level in over a decade, with the number of people who say they feel stressed and worried rising, according to a survey published in September.

By Umberto Bacchi, for World Economic Forum

On Sunday, far-right evangelical Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. The era of being surprised at this kind of politics is over. Now we have to live with what we've done.

By Ryan Broderick, for BuzzFeed News

Researchers are ramping up plans for living on the Moon.

By Elizabeth Gibney, for Nature

As the Antarctic Peninsula heats up, the rules of life there are being ripped apart. Alarmed scientists aren’t sure what all the change means for the future.

By Craig Welch, for National Geographic

"Science fiction might be the genre best suited to Chinese society today; the breakneck pace of change becomes a constant, and to live in the present is to anticipate what is to come."

By Amanda DeMarco, for The Paris Review

James Gunn, the last surviving author of the genre’s Golden Age, believes it can help, anyway. A longtime resident of Lawrence, Kansas, Gunn started writing short stories in 1948…

By Mark Alpert, for Scientific American

Kickstarter campaign to publish the newly discovered, expanded version of the classic sci-fi story "Who Goes There?" (THE THING) by John W. Campbell, Jr.

The Australian National University has launched its new innovation institute, InSpace, which will bring together technology, science and law research to advance Australia's space industry.

Strata – Rock – Dust – Stars, which showcases ground-breaking moving image, new media and interactive artwork, is inspired by William Smith’s geological map of 1815, which was key in the development of Geology as a science and transformed the way in which we understand the world. Featuring artists: Isaac Julien, Agnes Meyer Brandis, Semiconductor, Phil Coy, Liz Orton, David Jacques, Ryoichi Kurokawa

China is planning to launch its own 'artificial moon' by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday.

Reported by Phys.org

The Trump administration wants to shift to a capitalist free-for-all in orbit. But the readiness of commercial space outposts to take NASA’s place is far from certain.

By Kenneth Chang, for The New York Times

The IAAA is the world’s only guild of artists dedicated to creating images of space. We paint, draw, sculpt, blow glass, and move pixels to show galaxies, stars, planets, moons, anywhere that the imagination can go, but a camera cannot (yet!).

This article explores four California-based eco-utopias: The Earth Abides (George Stewart, 1949), Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach, 1975), Pacific Edge (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1990), and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992), in an attempt to revive eco-utopian visions and learn from them.

By Ronnie D. Lipschutz, for Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

Like its biological model, the flic-flac spider, the BionicWheelBot can both walk and roll. Together with its discoverer, Professor Ingo Rechenberg, the Festo bionics team has used these unique movement patterns and turned them into a technical masterpiece for the Hannover Messe 2018.

By Festo HQ, via YouTube

Andrew McGranahan has cornered the growing market for witchy-sci-fi-collage art.

By Margaret Andersen, for AIGA Eye on Design

The "L5" is the world's first functional multi-bore single barrel rifle, and utilizes FDM's caseless ammunition.

FDM Promotional Video, via YouTube

Note: I think I first learned of caseless ammunition reading a William Gibson novel — Virtual Light maybe? — so this caught my attention for that reason.

They live thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface. They eat hydrogen and exhale methane. And they may shape our world more profoundly than we can imagine.

By Douglas Fox, for The Atlantic

Repeatedly reproduced and reimagined since the 80s, the tropes of cyberpunk must evolve or die.

By Paul Walker-Emig, for The Guardian