A society can lose its future before it arrives. In a fantastic new essay for @science.org, @anne-goujon.bsky.social argues that this century’s greatest scarcity may not be labour, capital or natural resources, but our capacity to generate confidence in the future. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math.

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks.

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In July 2026, we convened the inaugural Bali Futures Forum in Uluwatu, bringing together practitioners from diplomacy, foresight, technology, education, sustainability, design, science and culture to explore a simple question: what does it mean to practise futures well? balifutureforum.com

Bali Futures Forum

An intimate, off-the-record gathering for futures and futures-adjacent practitioners in Bali, Indonesia.

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To me, physics laboratories are some of the most beautiful places on earth. Beauty, for a physicist, is not incidental, it is often how they know they are on the right track. inspired by a piece in quantamagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the labs featured in the latest Global Physics Photowalk.

Elegant Machines for the Unseen

Science is often portrayed as rational, abstract, numerical. But spend any time inside a particle physics laboratory and that distinction collapses. These are places of extraordinary aesthetic forc…

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There is a full universe behind that wonderful new Artemis II "Night Marble" view of Earth. Here's a breakdown of the stars (and one planet) in the field of view. Look at us! Just a planet hanging out in space. Annotation by Rodrigo González Peinado. 🧪🔭

Some thoughts on melancholia as a cosmological feeling and who or what might be around to witness the merging of Andromeda and the Milky Way - Milkomeda. open.substack.com/pub/honorhar...

Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological Feeling

Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological Feeling

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A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entrepreneur, Paul Conyngham, used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a personalised mRNA cancer treatment for his dog after she was diagnosed with an aggressive tumour. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/m...

Medicine’s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology

Medicine’s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology By Honor Harger15 March 2026 A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entre…

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This is the final weekend of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum After months of inviting audiences to imagine futures beyond the familiar dystopias, the exhibition closes this weekend. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

Happy Lunar New Year! Welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse. Hoping the horse carries success and swift progress, and that fire brings light, renewal, and joy. Wishing everyone good health, and happiness in the months ahead. Gong xi fa cai! 🍊🍊🔥🐎

I’ve just written a new piece: Forms of Life: Curating Encounters Beyond the Human. It sets out the ideas behind ArtScience Museum’s 2026 season. Forms of Life is about the lives we share the planet with - animals, plants, and machines. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/f...

I am pleased to announce ArtScience Museum’s 2026 season: Forms of Life: Beyond the Human The year-long season explores multispecies worlds, machine intelligence, insects, ocean life, plants and fungi. It includes exhibitions and programmes about entanglement, coexistence, and other forms of life.

There are some very interesting moves happening in astronomy early this year. Eric Schmidt is now funding a serious slice of future infrastructure. Through Schmidt Sciences, 4 major instruments, 3 on Earth and 1 in space, are redefining observational astronomy. 🧪🌟 🔗 www.space.com/space-explor...

Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price."

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Insects: Microsculptures Magnified opens at ArtScience Museum on 17 Jan. Curated with the American Museum of Natural History and enriched by research from Singapore, it bridges photography and contemporary science to reveal insects as vital ecological actors. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

A new year is an opportunity to reframe how we see the world. So I love @whoi.edu’s Ocean World: www.whoi.edu/campaign/why... Thinking from the ocean outward reveals a planet defined not by the land but by the sea - a planetary system shaped by currents, chemistry, and deep time. 🧪🌊🌏

Some stars speak not in light, but in radio. I just wrote about a newly discovered class of binary stars, what I call “radio polars”, first identified by Iris de Ruiter and her team. They were also explored by @astrobites.bsky.social in a recent article. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/h...

Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky

Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky By Honor Harger 23 November 2025 Two stars orbit each other so closely that their surfaces seem almost aware of one another. One is a dense white dwarf – the r…

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A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second. That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...

In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that. Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future. I've written some reflections on it here:

Another World is Possible

Another World is Possible By Honor Harger 20 September 2025 In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. As my friend Liam Young says, it’s as if we are…

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I’ve just spent a few days aboard OceanXplorer, the remarkable research vessel of OceanX, which has been docked in Singapore for the OceanX Summit. It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine. oxsummit.oceanx.org

I’ve been reflecting on the themes of our exhibition, Another World Is Possible From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

Liam Young’s cinematic worlds are at the heart of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum. We’re proud to present the global premiere of World Machine, Liam’s new work tracing Asia’s role in AI. Alongside it are Planet City, After the End and The Great Endeavour.

I’m thrilled to announce that Another World Is Possible is now open at ArtScience Museum. Co-curated by me, my team and Liam Young, this is a show about how we imagine the future. At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity

I’m excited to announce In the Ether: A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology, opening 6 Sep at ArtScience Museum. Marking the International Year of Quantum Science, we bring quantum physics into public space together with CQT and Ethereum Singapore. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...

It’s important to operate with care and respect when bringing futures work into places where it’s already unfolding, respecting those who hold space and nurture communities. I’d like to think that when we step into each other’s worlds, we do so with regard for the people tending the ground.

I’m delighted to announce that our next exhibition at ArtScience Museum is Another World Is Possible. It’s a show close to my heart, inviting us to imagine hopeful, distinctly Asian futures through art, design, film, and architecture. It opens on 13 September. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

I’ve just published a new essay, Reading the Cosmic Web, inspired by Mark Neyrinck's Rivers of Galaxies in @aeon.co. It explores how the filamentary structure of the universe is echoed in rivers, mycelium, spiderwebs, and other branching forms of life. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/r...

We’ve just launched the first project in ArtScience Museum’s programme for the International Year of Quantum - Qlimate Tongues by Libby Heaney. It prompted a new essay - The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum Science. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/t...

The Quantum Turn

The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum ScienceBy Honor Harger29 June 2025 The strange logics of quantum mechanics have been with us for more than a century. This…

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What if astronomical instruments didn’t just show us the universe — but became part of how we think? I’ve written a new piece, Towards a Cognitive Astronomy. It’s inspired by the recent essay by @coreyspowell.bsky.social in @aeon.co. It’s about tools, thought, and telescopes. 🧪✨

Towards a Cognitive Astronomy

Towards a Cognitive Astronomy: How Observing the Universe Extends the Mind By Honor Harger 8 June 2025 I think a lot about astronomy. It’s embedded in how I work, think, and pay attention to the wo…

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This weekend we reopened Future World, our permanent exhibition at ArtScience Museum with 4 new artworks by teamLab that explore nature as a living, responsive system. These installations respond to our presence inviting a deeper connection with the natural world. www.teamlab.art/e/artscience...

[Official] teamLab Future World, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Mar 12, 2016 - Permanent ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

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This week, we launch the Sustainable Futures season at ArtScience Museum, with the reopening of Future World featuring new works by teamLab, the Southeast Asian premiere of Artland by Do Ho Suh & a new ecological film festival. In this essay, I reflect on why we continue to return to nature.

Sustainable Futures: On Curating Ecological Imagination

Sustainable Futures: On Curating Ecological Imagination25 May 2025 As climate anxiety deepens, public institutions must do more than educate: we must inspire. At ArtScience Museum, we’ve long belie…

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Earlier this year, I took part in two different, but connected, gatherings: the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication in Sharjah and the CERN Art and Science Summit in Geneva. I’ve written a short report reflecting on those events, and my curatorial work at ArtScience Museum.

Strange Patterns: Art as a Pathway to Scientific Understanding

Strange Patterns: Art as a Pathway to Scientific Understanding 7 February 2025 A report on the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, January 27…

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