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1.27.18, 9:52 AM EST on futurism

Never-Before-Seen Viruses With Weird DNA Were Just Discovered in The Ocean

1.25.18, 4:51 PM EST on futurism

Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as it Moves Through the Brain

12.31.17, 9:30 AM EST on futurism

Physicists Have Created a Set of Conditions in Which Time Seems to Run in Reverse

12.31.17, 9:00 AM EST on futurism

New Calculations May Finally Make Fusion Energy a Reality

12.26.17, 12:24 PM EST on futurism

Fourteen Ways Our Perception of the Universe Changed Forever in 2017

12.22.17, 3:43 PM EST on futurism

Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brains Work

Updated 12.19.17, 3:32 PM EST on futurism

Physicists Just Invented an Essential Component Needed for Quantum Computers

12.7.17, 12:37 PM EST on futurism

In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History

11.27.17, 5:48 PM EST on futurism

Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy

11.26.17, 8:00 AM EST on futurism

Earth Is Getting Hit by Too Much Antimatter, and Nobody Knows Why

11.20.17, 5:46 PM EST on futurism

Harvard Scientists Made a Material That Creates Completely New States of Light

11.17.17, 4:31 PM EST on futurism

Genetically Modified Beetles Grew a Fully Functional Third Eye