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Off World

A 40-Year Old Voyager Spacecraft Can Guide Aliens to Earth

Hard Science

Researchers May Have Just Discovered an Entirely New State of Matter

Robots & Machines

HEXA Is an Agile, Spider-Like Robot That You Can Program Yourself

Hard Science

Scientists Claim They Have “Solved the Mystery of How the First Animals Appeared on Earth”

Here’s What the Cassini Spacecraft is Revealing During its Final Days

For one, we now know Saturn's moons may support life.

8 mins ago

#Cassini #grand finale #NASA

Health & Medicine

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Recent Human Gene Editing Trial in the US

This technique may be able to cure serious diseases, but how can we regulate it?

11 mins ago

#CRISPR #gene editing embryos #gene-editing

Could Holograph-Based Tech Become a Staple in Home Entertainment?

Voxiebox is an interactive, multi-user entertainment system that works by projecting 3D holograms into the air. In the future could holograph-based technology become a staple in home entertainment?

1 hour ago

#futurism videos

Health & Medicine

Scientists Have Developed a New Method to 3D-Print Living Tissue

Better artificial organs could be on the way.

17 hours ago

#3d printing #artificial organs #bioprinting

Everything at This Store is 3D Printed. Even The Food.

This first-of-its-kind restaurant 3D prints gourmet food.

18 hours ago

#futurism videos

Sponsored Health & Medicine

Can A New Supplement Change How We Age?

It's not the fountain of youth, but it is pushing the bounds of health.

18 hours ago

#antioxidants #nad #supplements

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.

A Scottish Council Just Approved the Country’s Largest Solar Farm

It will be the size of 40 soccer fields and feature 80,000 solar panels.

18 hours ago

#renewable energy #scotland #solar energy

Renewable Energy Isn’t Just Cutting Costs, It’s Saving Lives

The cut in air pollution prevented as many as 12,700 US deaths over nine years.

19 hours ago

#clean air #renewable energy #solar power

Enhanced Humans

New Tech Is Giving Humanity Many Potential Paths to Immortality

It's no longer if we could, but rather if we should.

19 hours ago

#2045 #immortality #singularity

Predict the Future

Watch: The Deep Future

Spoiler alert: in the long, long, long, long, long, long term--it doesn't look good.

19 hours ago

#earth #end of the universe

What Is the Earth Worth?

It is possible to put a price tag on this planet?

19 hours ago

#earth #space #value

Buildings to Generate Their Own Power With Innovative Glass Blocks

Buildings consume more than forty percent of the electricity produced across the globe.

19 hours ago

#bipv #net-zero energy #solar squared

Advanced Transport

Would You Buy Your Own Submarine?

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?

Artificial Intelligence

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

Will AI Blur the Lines Between Physical and Virtual Reality?

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

Earth & Energy

Investment Bank Report Predicts the Cost of Electric Vehicles Will Match Regular Cars by 2018

Nanotechnology Gives Green Energy a Green Color

Lithium from Supervolcanoes Could Power An Electric Future

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

Enhanced Humans

This Visor Could Help Firefighters See Clearly Through Smoke

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

Future Society

Sir Richard Branson Thinks the World Needs to Consider Universal Basic Income

A Moving Sail Bridge Concept is Transforming the Future of Architecture

The First Truly Applicable Hologram Tech is Here

Bitcoin Now Comes From Satellites in Space. Welcome to the Future.

Hard Science

Scientists Have Officially Created Healthy Offspring from Genetically Infertile Male Mice

It May Just Trick Your Mind

Researchers Use Genetics and Electromagnetism to Control the Movements of Mice

Watch: Why Cosmic Evolution Matters

Health & Medicine

Researchers Used Tiny Autonomous Vehicles to Deliver Medicine to the Stomach of Mice

Researchers Have Devised a Method to Erase Memories Associated With Fear

A Revolutionary Device Heals Body Parts by Injecting DNA

Plants Have Been “Hijacked” to Create a Vaccine — And it Could Eradicate Polio

Off World

New Thruster Design Increases Efficiency for Future Spaceflight

When Will the First Human Space Colony Be Established?

Here’s Your Critical Guide to the Hospitable Earth-Like Exoplanets

Small, Water-Powered Satellites Could Be the Future of Space Exploration

Robots & Machines

Automated and Personalized Life-Saving CPR

Broadway Hit “Hamilton” Has a Plan to Stop Bots From Buying up Tickets

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

“Alexa, Let’s Go for a Walk”

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

Traditional Photography Just Got an Interactive Upgrade

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?

Toyota Just Patented a “Cloaking Device”

It's a tool "for making an object appear transparent."

August 16, 2017

#cloaking device #invisibility #toyota

Researchers Hacked Into DNA and Encoded it With Malware

Thankfully, so far its applications aren't criminal in nature.

August 16, 2017

#dna #gene sequencing #hacking

Physicists Have Made Exotic Quantum States From Light

This puts us one step closer to living in a world with quantum computers.

August 16, 2017

#bose-einstein condensate #Photons #quantum circuits

A New Computing Technology Mimics Aspects of Human Thought

"To create computers that not only learn new information but that also learn what to forget.”

August 16, 2017

#computing technology #neural learning #organismoids

Researchers Have Officially Discovered a New Kind of Chemical Reaction

And it could reveal how life on Earth came to be.

August 15, 2017

#chemical reactions #combustion #Exoplanets

Graphene Computers Work 1000 Times Faster, Use Far Less Power

It's smaller but more powerful.

August 15, 2017

#2d materials #carbon nanotubes #computing

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

Eclipses didn’t always look like they do now, and in the far future, they may not happen at all.

August 15, 2017

#eclipse 2017 #solar eclipse #total solar eclipse

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

844 million people don’t have access to clean water. This method, when perfected outside the lab, could help.

August 15, 2017

#desalination #drinking water #graphene

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

A thing couldn’t be a wave and a ball at the same time, could it?

August 14, 2017

#double slit experiment #quantum mechanics

Sponsored Earth & Energy

This is the Future of Renewable Energy

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

August 14, 2017

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