Dreams From A Neuron

Project Almanac (2015)

"The Ultimate Haunted House" by David Cousens

My latest illustration for @SciFiNow magazine (in issue 101) presented without the text on it that appears in the issue. SciFiNow is such a fun magazine to work with.

More Gems You Won’t Believe Are Naturally-Occurring

8 January - A detailed survey of lion populations has revealed that in West Africa, their numbers have collapsed with less than 250 adults remaining

27 January – Genetic analysis of a European male from 7,000 years ago has revealed he had dark skin, dark hair and blue eyes – suggesting that lighter skin colour evolved much later than was previously assumed

11 April – A new statistical analysis of temperature data since the year 1500 concludes “with confidence levels greater than 99%, and most likely greater than 99.9%” that recent global warming is not caused by natural factors and is man-made

29 May – Scientists have transferred data by quantum teleportation over a distance of 10 feet with a zero percent error rate

14 August: A self-organising robot swarm consisting of 1,000 individual machines has been demonstrated by Harvard University.

12 September: A robot with dexterous arms capable of loading a dishwasher has been unveiled at the British Science Festival.

13 October - A new battery has been developed capable of being recharged up to 70 per cent in only two minutes. The battery also has a longer lifespan of over 20 years

21 October – A paralyzed man becomes the first in the world to walk again following a pioneering therapy which involved transplanting cells from his nose into his severed spinal cord

27 October - An international group of scientists has announced the most significant breakthrough in a decade toward developing DNA-based electrical circuits.

31 October - Arachnophobia is cured by removing part of a man’s brain.

12 November - The Philae probe from the Rosetta spacecraft lands successfully on the surface (at a site named Agilkia) of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

6 December - New research, using ultrasound, has developed a 3D haptic shape that can be seen and felt in mid-air.

26 December – Moscow State University has announced the creation of a DNA bank to store genetic samples from every living thing on Earth. The facility, funded by the country’s largest ever scientific grant, will be opened in 2018

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