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Health & Medicine

New Study Reveals Stem Cells from Young Hearts May Help Reverse the Aging Process

Artificial Intelligence

Will AI Blur the Lines Between Physical and Virtual Reality?

Hard Science

Researchers Made a Graphene Sieve That Can Make Seawater Safe to Drink

Enhanced Humans

This Visor Could Help Firefighters See Clearly Through Smoke

Traditional Photography Just Got an Interactive Upgrade

Fyusion is a first-of-its-kind platform that allows anybody to capture their surroundings in order to project them into virtual space. An upgrade to traditional photography.

27 mins ago

#futurism videos

Health & Medicine

Are Vertical Farms the Future of Farming?

This is the sort of conversation explored in Peter Diamandis’s online community called Abundance 360 Digital (A360D).

13 hours ago

Study Shows That Minimum Wage Hikes Put More Jobs at Risk of Automation

A $1 increase results in a 0.43 percent decline in automatable jobs.

17 hours ago

#automation #job displacement #Unemployment

Meet the Astrophysicist Who’s Using Kickstarter to Save Science

Brian Koberlein believes that a new kind of story needs to be told.

18 hours ago

#big science #Science Communication #science education

Engineers Are Building the World’s Largest Single-Tower Solar Thermal Plant

It will be able to power nearly 100,000 homes.

19 hours ago

#renewable energy #solar power #SolarReserve

Health & Medicine

We Just Figured out How to Activate Stem Cells to Treat Baldness

Researchers got dormant hair follicles to start growing hair again.

19 hours ago

#baldness #hair loss #stem cells

Infographic of the Day

To explore space we must develop better tools to handle delays in communication arising from huge distances: this is communication’s next frontier.

Watch: The Surprising Places We Waste Energy

We use a LOT of energy, but we waste a lot too.

19 hours ago

#carbon footprint #electricity #energy

Watch: When Will We Stop Using Oil?

We should probably stop using oil sooner rather than later.

19 hours ago

#carbon free #CO2 #oil

Artificial Intelligence

The Most Important Question Underlying Artificial General Intelligence Research – Is Math Real?

What are the numbers and math behind AI sentience?

19 hours ago

#AI #consciousness #sentience

Predict the Future

The Implications of Cosmic Silence

Could cosmic silence imply that we as a species lag way behind other potential life forms?

19 hours ago

#cosmic silence #extraterrestrial life #fermi paradox

Goldman Sachs Analyst Predicts Bitcoin Price Could Hit $4,800

As Bitcoin soars once again amidst fifth wave, expert predicts new record highs.

August 15, 2017

#bitcoin #cryptocurrency #goldman sachs

Robots & Machines

A Drone Unintentionally Landed on Britain’s Largest Warship and No One Noticed

This photographer’s mistake reveals troubling security concerns.

August 15, 2017

#drones #military tech #regulations

Advanced Transport

As New Electric Vehicles Come to Market, Older Models Get Discounted Up to $20,000

This Drone Can Fly and Swim

Could Passenger Drones Be the Future of Personal Transportation?

DeLorean Aerospace Is Working on a Flying Car With a Range of 120 Miles

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Reminds Us of the Possible Dangers of Unregulated AI

Elon Musk’s OpenAI Created a Bot That Can Beat the World’s Best eSports Players

DeepMind is Teaching AIs How to Manage Real-World Tasks Through Gaming

We May Have Just Uncovered a Serious Problem With How AI “See”

Earth & Energy

Watch: Will Batteries Power The World?

Researchers Develop Batteries You Can Power With Your Spit

This is the Future of Renewable Energy

This Is What Nuclear Warfare Will Do To Our Planet

Enhanced Humans

A New Gene Editing Technique Could Finally Allow Us to Treat ALS

Would You Tattoo A “Sound” on Your Body?

DARPA is Working on Enhancing Human Senses with Computers

A Researcher Wants to Test the Effects of Microdosing on Cognitive Ability and Productivity

Future Society

End-To-End Encryption Isn’t Enough Security for ‘Real People’

Generative Design Could Radically Transform the Look of Our World

Buzz Aldrin: Scientific Understanding Matters More Today Than Ever

Microsoft is Embracing Blockchain With its New Ethereum-Based Framework

Hard Science

Researchers Have Officially Discovered a New Kind of Chemical Reaction

Graphene Computers Work 1000 Times Faster, Use Far Less Power

Catch the Eclipse While You Can — They Won’t Happen in the Future

Quantum Weirdness Has Been Tested Beyond The Particle Scale For The First Time

Health & Medicine

Alternative Cancer Treatments Come With Increased Chances of Death

These NASA Approved Glasses Are the Safest Way to Watch Next Week’s Solar Eclipse

New Stamp-Sized Tissue Patch Could Be Used to Regenerate Damaged Organs

Are Probiotics the Key to Solving Humanity’s Health Issues?

Off World

An Exclusive Look Inside The Secretive Building Where NASA Makes Rockets

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Touched Saturn Today as Part of Its Grand Finale

SpaceX Just Completed Another Launch, Marking the End of an Era

NASA Is Finally Going to Wake up the New Horizons Spacecraft

Robots & Machines

Quantum Computers Could One Day Help Us Find Cures for Incurable Diseases

“Alexa, Let’s Go for a Walk”

A Future With UBI and Robots?

The Laser-Shooting Mosquito Zapper We’re Still Waiting For

Sci-Fi Visions

Brain-Scanning Tech May Threaten Our Right to Cognitive Liberty

Six Life-Like Robots That Prove The Future of Human Evolution is Synthetic

Watch: The Far Future of the Universe

Step Into the Future at the Worlds Fair Nano

Virtuality

Watch: Your Brain in Virtual Reality

The First Mind-Controlled Virtual Reality Game Has Arrived

Is Investing in Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Worth the Gamble?

These Projections Turn Rock Climbing into a Real Live Video Game

Infographic of the Day

Unless we can remove carbon from the Earth’s atmosphere to restore balance, humanity will face catastrophe of unimaginable scale.

Health & Medicine

The Placebo Effect Is Real and It Can Lead to Better Healthcare

It's not just in your head.

August 13, 2017

#disease #nocebo #placebo

You Can Now Buy Genetically Engineered Salmon in Canada

After 25 years of controversy, GM salmon fillets are being sold as food in Canada.

August 12, 2017

#aquabounty technologies #aquadvantage salmon #gm foods

Health & Medicine

Check out This Crystal-Clear MRI Footage.

Check out this crystal-clear MRI footage.

August 12, 2017

#futurism videos

We Need a Priority Lane for the Internet in Emergencies

Bottlenecks form quickly in an emergency, delaying emergency personnel.

August 12, 2017

#disaster planning #internet #telecommunications

Filecoin’s ICO Shatters Records by Raising Nearly $200 Million in Just 1 Hour

The achievement shows that decentralized currency has become a major industry.

August 11, 2017

#cryptocurrency #decentralization #filecoin

Health & Medicine

New Research Shows That This HPV Vaccine Could Prevent 93% of Cervical Cancers

Making this vaccine available everywhere could save thousands of lives annually.

August 11, 2017

#cancer #gardasil #hpv

Advanced Transport

Dubai Just Moved One Step Closer to Launching Its Flying Taxi Service

Testing of these futuristic vehicles will begin this year.

August 11, 2017

#Autonomous vehicles #flying cars #volocopter

New Study Explains How Some Planets May Never Become Habitable

This could trim the number of planets we should investigate for alien life.

August 11, 2017

#aliens #Exoplanets #extraterrestrial life

Microbes Have Their Own Version of the Internet

The Internet of Living Things is a neat and beautifully functioning system.

August 11, 2017

#internet of living things #microbes #organisms

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