Five scientific predictions by Professor Stephen Hawking

From catastrophic climate change to alien invasion, the theoretical physicist's thoughts about what might lie ahead were often far from optimisticIn his recently published posthumous collection of articles and essays, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking forecast that genetic editing techniques will give rise to a breed of "superhumans" - "a race of self-designing beings who are improving at an ever-increasing rate". Continue reading...