Earth

It appears as though the oceans are set to become the next commercial frontiers. Conversations are being had about the impending practice of mass deep-sea mining and its lucrativeness, much to the distaste of environmentalists. In a world already bludgeoned by excessive human contact, people are questioning the ethics...

As coursework and exam season is in full swing, the daunting and exciting prospect that the academic year is almost coming to an end has us at Impact Features thinking: what would we like to see in the future? Our contributors have compiled a selection of various things that...

A new trend which has followed the turn of 2019 is the #10yearchallenge, with people taking to twitter, Facebook and Instagram to share photo transformations of themselves from 2009 to 2019. Although initially a bit of fun, especially among the Hollywood sphere, with celebrities sharing embarrassing past photos, the...

Aliens, probability, physics—it might not sound like the most simple or most interesting of concepts, but the Fermi paradox poses perhaps one of the most existential questions of all time: are we alone in the universe? Although commonly associated to Fermi, the question of probability in relation to extra-terrestrial...

A project as expansive as Planetarium would have to be a collaboration. Originally a commission for American composer Nico Muhly, the album grew to draw upon the efforts of composer Bryce Dessner of The National, singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, and drummer James McAlister to explore the expanse of the cosmos....

NASA’s Kepler telescope has found a habitable planet within the Milky Way with striking similarities to our own home world – so much so that it has already been coined as Earth 2.0. Christened with the snappy name Kepler-425b, the newly discovered planet was described by Dr Suzanne Aigrain,...