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.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson put forth a paper in Science that changed the way we talked about alien civilizations. In it, Dyson conjectured that a sufficiently advanced civilization would harness ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. All of our planet's energy — whether it's gained from food, fossil fuels, or renewable sources — ultimately comes from the sun. Solar ...

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 ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of dust ...

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Futurist George Dvorsky has penned an article in which he proposes building a Dyson Sphere around the Sun by basically destroying Mercury and using it for parts. A Dyson sphere, for those who missed ...

Looking for the best ways to generate power in Dyson Sphere Program? Building a Dyson Sphere requires a huge amount of energy, which is somewhat ironic given the whole point of a Dyson Sphere is to ...

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