The 5 Weirdest AI Applications [INFOGRAPHICS]
We all know that artificial intelligence has the enormous potential to change our way of life in many positive and transformative ways. But that doesn't mean AI hasn't been put to some weird uses: from...
View ArticleWarfare 2040: The Future of Military Technology [INFOGRAPHIC]
The face of warfare is rapidly changing. Numerous advances in recent decades have made possible military technology that was formerly the stuff of science fiction. Hypersonic missiles, next-gen...
View ArticleInvaders From Earth!: How Elon Musk Plans to Conquer Mars
On September 27, Elon Musk unveiled his most ambitious project yet—called the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), it's nothing less than his long-awaited plan for, not only putting humans on Mars,...
View ArticleFlying on Wings of Plasma [INFOGRAPHIC]
There's a new aerospace technology on the horizon—using plasma, the superheated "fourth state of matter," to enhance the aerodynamic performance of aircraft. Here, we break down the mechanics and the...
View ArticleThe Earliest Futurist: The Remarkable Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci...
Visionary, polymath, scientist, artist, engineer—Leonardo da Vinci was the quintessential "Renaissance Man." Whether it was flying machines, diving suits, automatons or advanced weaponry, da Vinci...
View ArticleFuture Moonshots [INFOGRAPHIC]
Humans dreams big—and, better yet, we make those dreams a reality. It's enabled us to tame nature, build new nations, defeat disease, defy gravity and even reach the Moon. And we're not done yet—not by...
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2040: A Space Odyssey [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Understanding Machine Learning [INFOGRAPHIC]
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View ArticleThe Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces [INFOGRAPHIC]
As our technology has evolved, so has the way we interact with it—and nothing exemplifies this more than the dream of a seamless brain-computer interface (BCI). Forget clunky keyboards and...
View ArticleThe Tesla Revolution [INFOGRAPHIC]
Elon Musk has a new project in the offing—and, no, it doesn't involve Mars. This one is more prosaic, not to say more immediately realizable: it's nothing less than to create a fully self-contained...
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China’s New “Social Credit Score” Brings Dystopian Science Fiction to Life
Big Brother State The Chinese government is taking a controversial step in security, with plans to implement a system that gives and collects financial, social, political, and legal credit ratings of...
View ArticleSweet Dreams Are Made of This: A Guide to Urban Living in the 80s [INFOGRAPHIC]
There's one thing about the future that we can be sure of: whatever predictions we make for it will fail miserably. Still, it's amusing and instructive to speculate, and in that spirit we present a...
View ArticlePlanets of Doom: The Strange Worlds of Dead and Dying Stars [INFOGRAPHIC]
Astronomers tell us that the Sun, in about 7 billion years, will expand into a bloated red giant—wreaking havoc on the inner planets, and even destroying the Earth. So, in order to satisfy our morbid...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Human Understanding of the Universe [INFOGRAPHIC]
Our understanding of the physical world has come a long way since the old days—the days of fire-lit caves and the flickering shadows that crowded round the fearful human mind. Still, we've a long way...
View ArticleWhy Haven’t We Found Aliens? An Analysis of the Problem [INFOGRAPHIC]
We've been searching for extraterrestrial intelligence for decades now—and it's high time we found something. Yet, to our immense frustration, all searches thus far have come up decidedly empty. So,...
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 Timeline of Future Space Exploration: Part 1 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Space exploration has come a long way since the first primitive satellites—we've visited all the canonical planets, and laid the groundwork for the next stage of discovery and colonization. A new, more...
View ArticleA Timeline of Future Space Exploration: Part 2 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Space exploration has come a long way since the first primitive satellites—we've visited all the canonical planets, and laid the groundwork for the next stage of discovery and colonization. A new, more...
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Would it Be Possible to Build a Death Star?
Could We Actually Build One Now? Few weapons of mass destruction are as iconic as Star Wars’ Death Star—an “armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.” But like most of the...
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