Our Warming World: The Future of Climate Change [INFOGRAPHIC]
It now seems clear that—for better or worse—human civilization is reshaping the Earth's climate as never before. Using for inspiration the A2 scenario included in the IPCC's "Special Report on Emission...
View ArticleShimizu’s Dream: A Vision of the Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
Immense, mile-high city-pyramids with millions of inhabitants. Solar power stations on the Moon to feed an energy-hungry world. Cities under the sea, and cities atop the sea, drifting in the currents...
View ArticleBreakthrough Initiatives [INFOGRAPHIC]
The "Breakthrough Initiatives" seek to answer one of the most pressing questions of our day: are we alone in the universe? Breakthrough Listen will scan the skies for alien signals, while Breakthrough...
View ArticleThe World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm [INFOGRAPHIC]
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Japan has been seeking alternative methods of energy generation. Kyocera's floating solar farm at the Yamakura Dam reservoir is one such project,...
View ArticleCar Tech Forecast: The Next 10 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]
Cars are becoming a part of our connected world—just another smart device, like our phones and tablets. And driverless tech, meanwhile, has evolved rapidly in recent years; companies like Tesla Motors,...
View ArticleNew Horizons: To Pluto and Beyond [INFOGRAPHIC]
A decade ago, NASA launched what would become its fastest interplanetary probe: the New Horizons mission to explore little Pluto in the lonely, frigid outer marches of the Solar System. Its incredible...
View ArticleThe Future According to H. G. Wells [INFOGRAPHIC]
Science fiction author, futurist, prophet: H. G. Wells lived in the future and for the future as few before or since. He foresaw many of the great technological innovations of the 20th Century—and...
View ArticleSpiral Skyscrapers: A New Twist on Architectural Design [INFOGRAPHIC]
Architects have a new plaything in their toy box—the spiral skyscraper. In great skylines around the world, new buildings are twisting, turning, curving, gyrating, spiraling, twirling, whirling,...
View ArticleMegaprojects: The Biggest Builds in the World [INFOGRAPHIC]
These days, architects and engineers are going bigger and bolder than ever before. New advances mean we can build higher, deeper, and on a vaster scale than was possible just a few decades ago. Whether...
View ArticleRobot Companions: A New Breed of Social Machines [INFOGRAPHIC]
They comfort children, assist the disabled, and companion those in the evening of their lives. Robots aren't just for industrial factories anymore—they're becoming a part of our world in new and...
View ArticleStarships of the Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
Fusion rockets, Bussard ramjets, SK drives, world ships carrying thousands of colonists and entire ecosystems—these are just a few of the ideas to get us to the stars. In this handy guide, we've...
View ArticleA Brief History Of Atomic Theory [Infographic]
From billiard balls to plum pudding to "probability clouds"—our understanding of the atom has changed a great deal over the course of history, and will likely continue to evolve along with the...
View ArticleClose Encounters of the Stellar Kind [INFOGRAPHIC]
The solar neighborhood is a dynamic and ever-changing environment—and it wasn't always the placid, low-key one we know today. Some of its residents have included—or will include—eclipsing binaries,...
View ArticleThe X-Plane Program [INFOGRAPHIC]
The historic X-Plane program pioneered numerous aerospace firsts—supersonic and hypersonic flight, reusable spaceplanes, and unmanned vehicles. Now, NASA is resurrecting the famous program to push the...
View ArticleThe Worst Bug Bites in the World [INFOGRAPHIC]
Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt identified a pressing world need, and—with characteristic self-sacrifice—he set out to fill it. The result is the Schmidt Sting Pain Index (SPI), a painfully-researched...
View ArticleScience Debunks Zombies [INFOGRAPHIC]
All Hallows' Eve is upon us—a night when we abandon the rigidly scientific, and embrace the irrationally supernatural. We sophisticated products of modern civilization put off our thin veil of...
View ArticleThe Next 100 Years: A Timeline of the Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
This one pretty much speaks for itself—it's a (highly speculative) infographic timeline of the next century of human progress in science and tech. It's a cloudy glimpse into the crystal ball, with...
View ArticleAll About Cryogenics [INFOGRAPHIC]
You can do a lot of weird stuff with cryogenics. You can (we hope) someday use it to preserve space voyagers on immense journeys. You can use it for power transmission. You can even chop someone's head...
View ArticleThe History of Chatbots [INFOGRAPHIC]
Long before Siri, Alexa, and Cortana, there was Eliza, Parry, and Jabberwacky. Chatbots turn 50 this year, and to celebrate, we've curated some of the most notable "artificial conversational entities"...
View ArticleHuman Evolution: A Timeline of the Near and Far Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
It's been said that to apply one's imagination to the possibilities of the future is a valuable spiritual exercise. We heartily agree—and what could be more spiritually gratifying than to imagine the...
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