Computing and mathematics legend Stephen Wolfram is worried about bigger problems than climate change or overpopulation. He just joined the Lifeboat Foundation, a think tank devoted to ways of ...

Should the U.S. military be thinking more about asteroid shields, lifeshield bunkers and antimatter weapon shields. Oh, and an alien shield. If these defensive systems/catastrophic scenarios are ...

The Lifeboat foundation was featured in the New York Times. The Lifeboat Foundation: Battling Asteroids, Nanobots and A.I. I am the Director of Research for the Lifeboat Foundation and this is a ...

Synthetic bacteria that efficiently produced hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide and water under controlled lighting. Chicken meat grown from chicken stem cells and beef grown in factories. They hold the ...