It is far from his best album, and not even his best album of the 1990s, but Hours... is David Bowie’s most significant album that decade.

Sur les flancs d’un volcan éteint, quelques scientifiques de l’ancienne république soviétique devenue indépendante en 1991 luttent pour la survie de l’astrophysique nationale dans un décor rétrofuturiste.

Bâtiments décrépis, fenêtres brisées, décharges... Les infrastructures construites à grands frais pour les Jeux Olympiques de 2004 sont à l’abandon. Des chaises de bureau cassées et des brochures de voyage carbonisées jonchent le sol de ce terrain de la côte athénienne.

Neuralink company has shared a brief public demo of the brain-computer interface (BCI) in action with a human patient.

Thaddeus Zupancic — author of London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981 — writes about the capital's great modernist housing. I grew up in Slovenia, and then in Germany and France. After I moved to London my interest didn't wane — not at all.

Hark. The end is nigh. “In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,” writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. “Today, it has come for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.

It is a familiar story: a small group of animals living in a wooded grassland begin, against all odds, to populate Earth. At first, they occupy a specific ecological place in the landscape, kept in check by other species. Then something changes. The animals find a way to travel to new places.

We all experience loss and grief. Imagine, though, that you don’t need to say goodbye to your loved ones. That you can recreate them virtually so you can have conversations and find out how they’re feeling.

En cette fin d’hiver, sous le ciel tourmenté, il faut s’accrocher à la rambarde pour ne pas décoller.

On an otherwise desolate horizon, a black dot materialized along the dramatic shoreline of California’s Salton Sea one recent Saturday afternoon.

Our last common ancestor with the octopus existed more than 500 million years ago.

Q: What do sci-fi-pioneer Jules Verne, horror-writer H.P. Lovecraft, and the Russian space programme have in common? A: Their overlapping interest in an inhospitable corner of the South Pacific, only recently identified as the remotest part of the world’s oceans—Point Nemo.