The future evolution of animals cannot be known in advance, but it is nevertheless possible to speculate. Let’s assume that in an unspecified near future, man disappears and leaves nature free to diversify. If the current trend on the planet continues, most of the large animals and basically all of…

No matter how large some animals may become, they are no match for colonies made up of a myriad of small sea creatures, the corals. Coral colonies are nothing more than coral reefs, which can become as large as entire nations. Corals are themselves made up of many small animals…

If artificial languages are being counted, then definitely Ithkuil. It has the nomination of being the most complex language ever conceived. The phonological system includes 65 consonants and 17 vowels, along with 3600 roots that can be modified with extremely complex grammatical rules by a huge number of affixes, prefixes…

If the earth had always had two moons, they would probably have formed in the same process that created our current moon, Earth’s collision with Theia. In all likelihood, the second moon would be smaller and lighter than the main moon, and would only slightly increase tides’ height. But it…

A small disc has been invented that can store up to 360 TB in very little space, for a period of time estimated in the billions of years. Using a very intense pulsed laser that lasts a quadrillionth of a second, scientists were able to record data into a quartz…

Several scientists are trying to achieve a transparent wood, capable of replacing plastic and glass. Wood has been an extremely useful material for thousands of years due to its resistance to compression and tension, its hardness and its thermal and acoustic insulating properties. Plastic is less environmentally friendly than wood…

There are several requirements and constraints that intelligent life is probably subject to. Let’s assume that they would share the basic characteristics of carbon-based life on Earth, which is a fairly realistic assumption considering the similar problems that convergent evolution solves in a similar way. So they too would have…

Different types of hair thickness, shape and color, have obviously been selected over the course of evolution for specific reasons. The main function of hair color is to shield against the sun’s rays. Every hair contains a certain amount of eumelanin and pheomelanin, two types of melanin which, combined in…