Our space-exploration ambitions have boldly taken humans to the moon, rovers to Mars and spacecraft to the outer reaches of the solar system. But could humans or spacecraft ever reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our planet? Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light-years (roughly 25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers) from Earth … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Christopher J. Burke Fantasy, Paranormal, Sci-Fi Christopher J. Burke is a writer, math teacher and webcomic creator living in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised. (He walked across the Brooklyn Bridge before it got crowded.) He’s loved the idea of … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Tal Frost Fantasy, Paranormal Tal Frost is a transmasc, nb author living in England who writes queer romantic contemporary fantasy (MM, MMM+). Demons, gods, shifters, humans, explicit MM sex, messy love, characters who struggle and quandaries about good and evil. Note … Read more
The next evolution of the internet could involve digitally transmitting the sense of touch, which may transform remote surgery and usher in a whole new era of online gaming. Researchers have developed a “Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet” (HCTI) standard that allows haptic information to be sent both ways across a network via data … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Mike McPhail Sci-Fi Story-engineer and trench-author Mike McPhail is best known as the editor of the award-winning Defending The Future (DTF) series of military science fiction anthologies. He is also the owner and chief artist of McP Digital Graphics, a web-based … Read more
Brain organoids are 3D, lab-grown models designed to mimic the human brain. Scientists normally grow them from stem cells, coaxing them into forming a brain-like structure. In the past decade, they have become increasingly sophisticated and can now replicate multiple types of brain cells, which can communicate with one another. This has led some scientists … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Mikko Rauhala Sci-Fi Mikko Rauhala is a Finnish SF author making their foray into the English speaking world. They often write their stories in both languages, which can get frustrating when there’s no one else to blame for the occasional double … Read more
By blocking the action of a single protein, scientists have extended the average life span of the mice in their experiment by around 25%. This recent finding has raised the question of whether such a treatment could ever work for people, and so far, there are some promising early hints that it might. In the … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Danielle Ackley-McPhail Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Sci-Fi Award-winning author and editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with Mike McPhail and Greg Schauer to form eSpec … Read more
Mercury may have a thick layer of diamonds hundreds of miles below its surface, a new study shows. The findings, published June 14 in the journal Nature Communications, may help solve mysteries about the planet’s composition and peculiar magnetic field. Mercury is filled with mysteries. For one, it has a magnetic field. Although it’s much … Read more
