Where the social, political, and technological meet in the music.

By Florence Okoye, for How We Get to Next

From Afrofuturism to the New Weird, nine sci-fi subgenres for understanding what’s to come.

By Jay Owens, for How We Get to Next

OUT speaks with the singer-songwriter Kim Boekbinder about her newest video and how her queer identity, specifically being bisexual and gender nonconforming, influences her music.

By Zachary Zane, for Out

Humanity’s ongoing annihilation of wildlife is cutting down the tree of life, including the branch we are sitting on, according to a stark new analysis.

By Damian Carrington, for The Guardian

Hot on the heels of Atlas doing parkour, we now have Boston Dynamics' SpotMini dancing its way into our nightmares.

By Boston Dynamics, via YouTube

"I don’t want to go all Dark Mountain here, but if you haven’t noticed by now that we’re all in trouble, then I’m not waiting for you any more."

By Warren Ellis, via MORNING, COMPUTER

By Zora Mai Quỳnh, for Terraform

"In one of the most powerful stories I've ever read to be set to the backdrop of climate change, Zora Mai Quỳnh draws on her own experiences as a refugee fleeing her home country of Vietnam to bring our fast-warming future into sharp, crushing relief." —Brian Merchant, Editor of Terraform

"Sometimes, when I write scary essays, I encourage you not to read them. This one’s different. It’s going to be brutal, scary, jarring, and alarming. But if you want my thoughts on the future, then read away."

By Umair Haque, for Eudaimonia & Co.

Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. A new report suggests that the problem is more widespread than scientists realized.

By Ben Guarino, for The Washington Post

:echōlot is an ambient audio-reactive light installation, in which imagery compliments the music, providing the viewer with graphic echo feedback.

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At Blue Origin, Amazon's space-obsessed founder is building rockets, and he hopes to someday blast humanity into an extraterrestrial future.

By Steven Levy, for Wired

Exoplanets imagined daily by designer Patricia Klein.

Photographer Edward Burtynsky is recording humanity's impact on the Earth, one epic-scale photo at a time.

By Nicola Davison, for Wired UK

In a bar in the small town of Peabody, Kan., in the middle of the night, astronaut Nick Hague’s family huddled around television screens. Family members breathlessly awaited the result of the rocket launch, the culmination of a childhood dream for Hague, a 43-year-old Hoxie native and U.S. Air Force colonel.

By Matt Riedl, for The Wichita Eagle

Human cognitive ability is being damaged not just by CO2 and lead, but the way social media feeds us information, making us shockingly ill-equipped to clean up the air we breathe.

By James Bridle, for The Guardian

The symbol represents extinction. The circle signifies the planet, while the hourglass inside serves as a warning that time is rapidly running out for many species.

Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in Buffalo examines the nuclear past and future of the United States.

By Allison Meier, for Hyperallergic

Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has done anything quantum at all?

By Erica Klarreich, for Quanta Magazine