A serene lake turned into a cheap post-Soviet perversion of an amusement park. — We humans have largely lost contact with nature. We have forgotten that we are a part of it. We see ourselves as something special, as the crown of creation, but we forget that we, too, are products of nature. And so we don’t mind destroying it for our own enjoyment. …

Cheap and efficient airborne wind energy has the potential to provide power for a Solarpunk future. — Wind energy is a fundamental part of the global transition to renewable energy. Wind turbines produce clean, basically unlimited power and, when combined with solar energy and other alternative energy sources, have the potential to transform our planet for the better. …

Solarpunk provides hope in an age of darkness. It is a bright vision of the future. A future we will have to fight for. — Don’t you feel like there is something inherently wrong with the world? That this is not how it is supposed to be? That something — it’s difficult to say what exactly — is missing? …

Ernst Mach’s principle explains how the stars have a profound influence on our physical reality. — Astrology is complete nonsense. Sorry, but it is true. For hundreds and thousands of years, astrologers have claimed that distant stars influence our personality and destiny. However, there is no actual scientific support for these claims. …

Why time flows in only one direction. And why you cannot remember the future. — Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We cannot imagine a world without time. It is omnipresent, determines how we live our lives, and describes the sequence of events that lead from the past to the present and into the future. You are born, you live, and then you die. The universe was…

The science behind the most significant images in the history of astrophysics. — They have done it yet again. The infamous Event Horizon Telescope Project (EHT) has just released clear images of the black hole (dubbed Sagittarius A*) at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This is also the first clear visual proof that a black hole exists there. Just three…

Our cities were designed to accommodate cars and the needs of men. It is time to build better ones. Here is how. — Our cities are not designed for people; they are designed for automobiles. Residential, commercial, and recreational areas are usually separated by broad, car-friendly streets. It is primarily men who benefit from this. This stems from the stereotype of the man as the provider, driving to work in a flashy car…

Self-driving, fully autonomous cars have been promised for years. When will they take over the streets? And should they? — Ever since we invented cars, people have dreamed of not having to drive themselves. This futuristic dream could be realized by self-driving, autonomous cars. Imagine the following scenario: You get in your car, tell the autopilot where you want to go, and the car drives there by itself — no…

A beginner’s guide to parallel universes and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. — Our universe — our reality — is unimaginable. Unimaginably large, unimaginably complex, unimaginably many galaxies, stars, and planets. And yet our universe could be just one of infinitely many universes. A speck of dust, hardly worth mentioning, in the midst of a vast multiverse. Endless possibilities, endless realities.