Today, we travel to the deserts. Or, actually, the deserts travel to us. What happens if dust swallows up over 30% of the planet? Guests: Sumant Nigam: climate researcher at…

Today we travel to a future where the Earth’s magnetic poles reverse. Guests: Eftyhia Zesta — Chief of the Geospace Physics Laboratory in the Heliophysics Division at NASA Michael Purucker…

We’re back! Did you miss me? Don’t answer that please. Today’s episode kicks off Season FIVE of Flash Forward. This year, I’m doing things a little bit differently. Instead of…

Another year has gone by! How time flies when you’re having fun and living in the future. Last year, at the end of the season, I did a recap going…

Hello friends! As promised, here’s an update to the GW501516 experiment I did. Disclaimer: this isn’t a good experiment. I’m an n of one. Don’t buy drugs online and take…

At long last, we’re doing genetic editing. What’s the deal with the recent news about CRISPR babies? What does a future full of human genetic editing look like? And how…

What happens when the Rio Grande dries up? The river is often overshadowed, at least in the US, by the Colorado River. But the Rio Grande creates the border between…

Getting from one place to another is hard. What if we could just teleport? From the physics of how this would work (it wouldn’t) to the ripple effects on politics,…

If humans want to really make a go at leaving Earth and living in space or on other planets, we’re going to have to figure out a lot of things:…

On today’s episode we tackle a future that was once a staple of science fiction: food pills. Instead of shopping and cooking and sitting down to eat meals together, we…