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The remarkable power of Australian kelp By Isabelle Gerretsen15th April 2021 Algae is a powerhouse for the climate, sending carbon to the seafloor and deacidifying oceans. In Australia, scientists are just beginning to tap its potential. M More than 45,000 years ago, by the shore of present-day Tasmania, a local person picked up a large piece of thick, dark brown seaweed. Its impervious tissue and resilient flexibility sparked an idea, and they realised that this giant piece of seaweed could so...

Back to the Future at the Pentagon By William J. Astore UFO, that imagined a near future of major moon bases and alien attacks on Earth. Movies of that era like Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey envisioned colossal spaceships and space stations featuring international crews on mind-blowing missions to Jupiter and beyond. Who’d have thought that, 20 years after Kubrick’s alternate reality of  2001, we humans would effectively be marooned on a warming “sixth extinction” plane...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? The future isn’t what it used to be. As a teenager in the 1970s, I watched a lot of TV science fiction shows, notably UFO, that imagined a near future of major moon bases and alien attacks on Earth. Mo...

Antiwar.com Original The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded Why 2021 Looks So Much Like 1981 – And Why That Should Scare Usby William J. Astore and Tom Engelhardt Posted on Originally posted at TomDispatch. When it comes to future conflicts or present-day war games, they have all the advantages and we have none! Or as Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy, told CNN recently, “Russia and China are playing a home game, we are playing an away game.” And mind ...

NationofChange Why 2021 looks so much like 1981 — and why that should scare us... UFO, that imagined a near future of major moon bases and alien attacks on Earth. Movies of that era like Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey envisioned colossal spaceships and space stations featuring international crews on mind-blowing missions to Jupiter and beyond. Who’d have thought that, 20 years after Kubrick’s alternate reality of  2001, we humans would effectively be marooned on...

The lighter side of Flight International Moon monikers NASA famously named its Space Shuttle test orbiter ‘Enterprise’ in honour of the television show Star Trek, so surely there’s an opportunity for a similar homage via the Artemis programme to return to the Moon? Fans of the science-fiction series Space: 1999 will recall the exploits of castaways on a lunar outpost after the Moon is blasted out of orbit by a far-side nuclear explosion – although best you don’t think too hard about ...