As we humans grow in numbers and technological sophistication, we will need to generate more and more energy for our use. That likely means ever more reliance on renewable sources of energy like solar ...

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Humankind is energy hungry. As our civilization industrialized over the last couple centuries, global energy consumption has spiked more than twentyfold, with no end in sight. When demand outstrips ...

Imagine you are an astronomer looking deep into space in search of extraterrestrial life. You spot a star that is emitting infrared radiation in anomalous fashion. You zoom in and see a swarm of solar ...

In 1960, British theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson published a one-page paper in the journal Science that offered perhaps the most hopeful vision ever conceived of humanity’s technological future.

Seven different stars in our galaxy may show signs of being contained within Dyson spheres, megastructures that could be constructed by advanced civilizations to harness radiation energy from stars, ...

We are closer to being able to build a Dyson Sphere than we think. By enveloping the sun in a massive sphere of artificial habitats and solar panels, a Dyson Sphere would provide us with more energy ...

The Dyson Sphere is one of the hallmarks of looking for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Scientists say that if we manage to find one, we can be sure that it's a super-advanced ...

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