Director of photography, Ashley Connor, and costume designer, Nicky Smith, on requirements for plausible worldbuilding, which include mutual respect amongst departments and consistent communication.

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What happens when you create a tiny, living world in a tank? 🌿 I built a self-sustaining ecosystem featuring moss, isopods, dart frogs, and even geckos. Discover the magic of life in this intricate, ...

A society without utopian visions breeds a present mired in despair. In the absence of shared dreams, only disillusionment—along with anger, alienation and animosity—remains. The decline of utopian ...

I have long argued that we want to create health so we can create opportunities for people to live, rather than the other way around. But this definition elides something important: I think our role ...

Google DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play ...

Job creation is central to the World Bank Group’s vision of creating a world free of poverty on a livable planet. The sustainable management of forests—which cover more than 30% of the earth’s surface ...

The Tesla and SpaceX chief has told his followers that they will live in a world where robots will take care of every need and people do not have to work, in what has become his latest slogan. By Ryan ...