2026-08-03
If all goes according to plan, on Nov. 5 India will celebrate a successful liftoff of its first Mars-bound space mission, the Mangalayaan, or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM). Designed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as a test of the country’s space technology and ability to orbit a craft around Mars, MOM will be a significant landmark for India as it seeks to one-up its regional neig [...]
2026-08-03
If China’s just-launched Chang’e 3 lunar probe (quaintly known as the Jade Rabbit) drops its robotic rover down on the Moon’s surface in mid-December as scheduled, it will be the first soft landing on our nearest celestial neighbor in 37 years. It also kicks off a resurgence of interest in putting people and hardware down on the Moon, and the beginning of a new wave of robotic visits to test [...]
2026-08-03
I’ll admit it: I love Big Science. Experiments at epic proportions, particularly when they involve exploration into other universes, dimensions, and scales, are hard to resist. This past week on a visit to Geneva, I had the chance to get up close to an icon of Big Science, the 17-mile wide particle accelerator run by CERN, also know as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). One of the biggest scientif [...]
2026-08-03
Every month or two, out of professional curiosity, I do a trawl of LinkedIn and a few other job sites to see who is hiring for positions in the field of foresight, futures research, innovation, and other fields related to my area of practice. In my usual rounds last week, I came upon a posting for a Senior Manager, Foresight Activation at that most venerable of American chocolatiers, Hershey. I di [...]
2026-08-03
Traveling from London to your second home in Zurich is no longer such a hassle thanks to the advent of suborbital space travel options, say consultants Knight Frank in a new report on property options for the wealthy. [...]
2026-08-03
Even as commodity prices whipsaw on Earth, smart ultra-wealthy investors are starting to take an interest in precious assets overhead in the form of asteroids. So says global consultants Knight Frank in its most recent Wealth Report, detailing the state of property and wealth worldwide. [...]