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Future Health: 2017’s Most Exciting Medical Advances
The transition from one year to the next is always a little uncertain – an uneasy blend of anxiety and optimism, it’s also a time of retrospection, introspection, and even a little tentative...
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Predicting 2017: A Look At Humanity’s Future in Space
The transition from one year to the next is always a little uncertain – an uneasy blend of anxiety and optimism, it’s also a time of retrospection, introspection, and even a little tentative...
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Obama: “The Trend Toward Clean Energy is Irreversible”
Words to the Wise On Monday, the journal Science published an article by President Barack Obama—which is newsworthy enough, since sitting presidents aren’t accustomed to penning pieces for scientific...
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Humanity May Have Reached its Maximum Lifespan
A Halt to Progress? It’s no secret that lifespans have been getting longer—whether in the U.S. or in other developed countries. Whereas at the beginning of the 20th Century global life expectancy...
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Scientists Have Launched a New Quest to Take Humanity Beyond Our Solar System
Interstellar Breakthrough It sounds like the hackneyed plot to a science fiction movie: a secretive group of billionaires, scientists, financiers, and philanthropists meet to draw up plans for the...
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A New Anti-Aging Technique Just Made It to Clinical Trials
Anti-Aging, Female Style Menopause is a point of no return for women, considered irreversible until recently. Earlier in 2016, a team of experts was able to find a way to rejuvenate post-menopausal...
View ArticleMars in Three Days: Here’s the Tech That Could Make It Happen
Riding to the Planets on a Beam of Light The clever girls and boys at NASA are always dreaming up new ways to circumvent the biggest obstacle to effective space travel: the speed barrier. Space is big,...
View ArticleA New Device Could Make Memory Implants a Reality
Total Recall Memories are the faintest, most ethereal wisps of our neurophysiology — somehow, the firing of delicate synapses and the activation of neurons combine to produce the things we remember....
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Here’s a Look at the Smart Cities of the Future
Smarter Urban Living Regular readers of Futurism probably understand, by now, what it means when the word “smart” is affixed to any common piece of technology — it means a serious upgrade, most likely...
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Is That Ship From “Passengers” Really Possible?
A Vision of the Future? Though essentially a love story [spoiler!], the film Passengers is set inside the starship Avalon, a futuristic interstellar spaceship carrying more than 500,000 passengers for...
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There’s A Lot of Good Virtual Reality Will Usher In—Literally
Technology for Good There’s a lot of good that technology brings to the world—convenience, ease, accessibility, even social good. Now, one technological advancement has come into focus recently for its...
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Scientists Have Made a New Kind of Invisibility Cloak
Bending Light Concealing objects in direct light is already a difficult feat. While there is ongoing research into invisibility cloaks of some form or other, researchers at the Public University of...
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Dasvidaniya! Russia Successfully Tests New Weapon That Can Blow Away Any Type...
Explosions and gunfire—once the hallmarks of modern warfare—will soon be a thing of the past. Military initiatives are focusing their efforts on the development of a new weapon that relies on...
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The Real Science Behind Supposed Alien Communications
A Long History of Mysterious Detections Every so often, we hear about a strange radio signal winging its way Earthward from the cold, lifeless depths of outer space. Suddenly, bored news personnel...
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There’s No Argument Against Nuclear Power
Atomic Future Reports of the demise of atomic energy seem to have been greatly exaggerated. It’s true that the glorious nuclear future — as envisioned in mid-century forecasts of the world to come —...
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Make NASA Great Again: A Memo to the New Administration
Whither NASA? It’s a new year, and there’s a new administration installed in Washington. And while there have been concerns about the state of science under a Trump administration, there are reasons...
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Have We Already Discovered the First Habitable Exoplanet?
An Alien World About 14 light-years away from Earth, a small red dwarf star only a quarter the size of the Sun sheds a gloomy, crimson radiance on its little retinue of worlds—three planets, ranging...
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