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A Solar System with Three Earths? Astronomers Find a Trio of Potentially...
Earth 2.0 (x3) European astronomers, using the Belgian TRAPPIST telescope, have detected the signatures of three very small worlds lurking in the periodic dimming of a nearby red dwarf star. The star...
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Newly Discovered Subglacial Lake Could Host Unknown, Isolated Life
A series of aerial radar images, obtained this past Christmas by U.S. and Chinese researchers, has revealed a new addition to Antarctica’s sizable complement of subglacial lakes. It’s quite large,...
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Sony’s Smart Contact Lenses Can Record What You See
A Glimpse of the Future Our memories are fallible things. We remember something one way; but the reality can be quite different. But imagine contact lenses that are also tiny cameras, recording and...
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Martian Aliens Must Wait—ExoMars Mission Delayed Two Years
Part two of the ExoMars mission won’t get off the ground until 2020—a delay of two years from its planned launch in 2018. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space...
View ArticleNVIDIA’s Autonomous Cars Learn By Watching You Drive
Real World Testing NVIDIA, the company known for its advanced graphics processing units and deep-learning systems, is making its debut in a very strange field indeed—the realm of driverless tech. Their...
View ArticleCambridge Makes World's Smallest Engine, And It's Tiny Enough to Enter Cells
Tiny Engines Researchers from the University of Cambridge have just devised a tiny engine—a really tiny engine—that will likely play a key role in realizing the long-awaited dream of truly functional...
View ArticleEarthquake Expert Says San Andreas Fault Primed for the “Big One”—Invest in...
The Next Big One? Thomas Jordan, the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, made some statements during his keynote address last night at the National Earthquake Conference that has...
View ArticleSpaceX Launches Geosynchronous Satellite And Lands on Ocean Barge…Again
Per Ardua… Continuing its thus far very successful mission to provide its customers with reliable and low-cost orbital transport, SpaceX has just launched the Japanese telecommunications satellite...
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New Horizons Spots Enormous Earth-Like Tail Streaming Behind Pluto
Something New Under the Sun Poor little Pluto was much maligned in (some) scientific circles—that is, before the arrival last year of NASA’s New Horizons probe. First, its reputation as a planet was...
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Further Proof That Aliens Are Definitely Out There
The Truth is Out There Are we alone? It is, perhaps, one of the most significant questions human beings have ever asked—right up there with “Why are we here?” and “How did it all begin?” Indeed, as...
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A Shocking Start to Life? Impact Craters May Have Triggered Life’s Origin
Pocket Ecosystems A new study, published this week in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, may provide new clues to one of the most intractable mysteries confronting human knowledge—the...
View ArticleMeet Viv, the Artificial Intelligence That Will Change the Way You Live
Getting With the Program The winds of change are blowing through Silicon Valley—not terribly unusual, granted, considering that something new seems to come out of that part of the world several times a...
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Earthquake Swarm Shakes Mount St. Helens
The Sleeping Giant It was a reminder that even the most developed nations in the world are subject to those same forces that have shaped the Earth for over four billion years—Mount St. Helens, one of a...
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Researchers Create Electronics That Can Dissolve in Your Brain
Noninvasive Implants Imagine brain implants that completely dissolve and fade away after a period of time. That’s just what a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed....
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Jackpot! NASA Just Released 56 Patented Technologies Into the Public Domain
A Technological Windfall We may have all just won the lottery (and we didn’t even know we were playing). NASA just released 56 patented technologies into the public domain, a move that’s designed to...
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Total (Un)Recall—Scientists Are Erasing Painful Memories
Don’t You Forget About Me We all have them: Memories we’d just rather forget. A particularly humiliating experience, like that time you peed in the public pool or when you face-planted in front of that...
View ArticlePrimitive Quantum Computers Are Already Outperforming Current Machines
The Dawn of the Quantum Age By now, most readers of Futurism are probably pretty well acquainted with the concept (and fantastic promise) of quantum computing. For those who aren’t, the idea is fairly...
View ArticleFuture Warfare: Meet The Electromagnetic Railgun
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, General Atomics’ 3-megajoule Blitzer electromagnetic railgun is a serious new political instrument. The railgun is essentially an artillery piece...
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The Forgotten Dwarf: Meet the Largest Unnamed Object in Our Solar System
Size Matters Sometimes astronomers make mistakes. It happens. Case in point, a team of astronomers have learned that the size of an object in the far reaches of the outer Solar System, called 2007...
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Life Where It’s Least Expected—New Study States Red Giants Can Unlock Life on...
Dying Suns About five billion years from now, our steady, dependable Sun—the greatest luminary object in our heavens—will finally exhaust its core reserves of hydrogen fuel, and it will swell up into a...
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