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Researchers created bionic mushrooms that could keep electricity-generating cyanobacteria alive longer than other surfaces.
Energy

The fungi could finally let us harness the power of cyanobacteria.

By Kristin Houser

Five Fun Tips To Help Delay Climate Catastrophe
Climate Change

Be the best futurist you can be.

By Dan Robitzski

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested big money in new sanitation technology, yielding developments that could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Health & Medicine

Gates thinks better sanitation can save half a million lives and $200 billion.

By Dan Robitzski

The Energy Spent Mining $1 of Bitcoin Could Earn You $3.40 in Gold
Bitcoin

Researchers translate the energy needed to mine crypto into dollars earned.

By Kristin Houser

Chinese police are now employing gait recognition software to identify citizens, making it the latest weapon in the nation's war against privacy.
Future Society

We don't need to see a person's face to recognize them.

By Kristin Houser

Plant-based meats are more impressive and convincing than ever. But if they're going to save the environment, governments need to help.
Environment

Startups might make a lot of money, but they can’t do humanitarian work on their own.

By Dan Robitzski

China just unveiled a life-size replica of its new permanently crewed space station called Tiangong. But it's not quite as big as the ISS.
Off-World

The International Space Station is about to get a new neighbor.

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that those who are given more money become greedier and refuse to help fight climate change. The poor are left on their own.
Climate Change

New research shows that the “haves” don’t pull their weight.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX recently proved it was ready to handle caring for an injured astronaut with a rehearsal aboard its GO Searcher recovery ship.
SpaceX

With spaceflight, it's never a bad idea to prepare for the worst.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at MIT developed a machine learning model that can detect depression by analyzing speech and the way patients talk.
Artificial Intelligence

But it won't replace a human therapist any time soon.

By Victor Tangermann

A new gadget uses machine learning to identify pollen and spores — and it could eventually give you a better sense of the air you're breathing.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers used machine learning to identify pollen and spores.

By Jon Christian

The ozone is finally healing, according to the latest version of a United Nations-backed report released every four years.
Science & Energy

We're slowly but steadily repairing the damage we caused.

By Kristin Houser

A blue and red "Vote" poster for political apps.
Future Society

Get ready for your friends to berate you for not going out to the polls.

By Kristin Houser

A newly-discovered star in our galaxy is only 300 million years younger than the universe itself. it's older than anything scientists expected to find.
Off-World

The star is mostly made of raw materials from the Big Bang.

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that offshore wind farms can suck the destructive energy out of hurricanes before they make landfall.
Wind

Simulations show that turbines could suck destructive energy out of hurricanes.

By Jon Christian

Researchers develop a corkscrew-shaped nanobot they can guide through the dense tissue of an eyeball using a magnetic field.
Nanotech

A teflon-like coating lets it slip right through eye tissue.

By Kristin Houser

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the world wide web in 1989, just called for online privacy regulations and restored net neutrality.
Future Society

Berners-Lee announced a new Contract for the Web to protect basic rights online.

By Dan Robitzski

General Motors just launched a contest asking the public to name its newly unveiled eBikes, which it claims will go on sale in 2019.
Science & Energy

Start racking your brain now.

By Kristin Houser

A new AI agent taught itself, using reinforcement learning, how to get dressed in the morning. The results could make animation much easier on artists.
Artificial Intelligence

Somehow, this self-dressing algorithm is all of us getting up in the morning.

By Dan Robitzski

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday
Artificial Intelligence

It's not a complete robot takeover. Yet.

By Victor Tangermann