Read the latest articles from Futurism (Page 1025)

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.
Brain

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

The organelles can even mimic some complex neural activity.

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.
Science & Energy

Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

The company claims "Equiano" will improve the continents' online infrastructure.

By Dan Robitzski

SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).
Off-World

Hypersonic Space Catapult Startup Signs Military Contract

Slinging satellites into space wouldn't require rockets or propellants.

By Victor Tangermann

A new molecule latches onto uranium isotopes, making them easier for the kidneys to guide out of the bodies of people suffering from uranium poisoning.
Health & Medicine

This Molecular “Claw” Pulls Uranium From Irradiated Mice

It removed four times more uranium from their kidneys than existing treatments.

By Kristin Houser

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.
Moon

Breaking: NASA Announces Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan

The Dragonfly mission will send a tiny rotorcraft to the ocean world to look for signs of life.

By Victor Tangermann

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.
Environment

Airplane Contrails Might Actually be a Problem for the Environment

The heat trapped by contrails will triple by 2050.

By Dan Robitzski

The White House plans to host a social media summit on July 11, but so far, none of the expected invitees have commented on the event.
Future Society

Trump Slams Tech Titans, White House Announces Social Media Summit

"We should sue Facebook. Think Mark Zuckerberg will come to my party?" – Trump, probably

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk just revealed that the base model Roadster will accelerate from 0-60 mph in just over two seconds "before adding rocket thruster option."
Advanced Transport

Musk: Roadster to Go 0-60 in 2.1 Seconds “Before Thruster Option”

You'll have to pay extra to cross the two-second threshold.

By Victor Tangermann

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.
Graphene

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

The "supermaterial" has a super power we didn't know about.

By Kristin Houser

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
Facial recognition

Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

There's a growing backlash against using facial recognition for law enforcement.

By Victor Tangermann

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.
Physics

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

As it tumbles outward, turbulence tends to fall into a uniform pattern.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

The event was packed with promotions for Amazon Web Services.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk took to Twitter to compare an Earth-to-Earth trip aboard SpaceX's powerful Starship rocket to a ride on Disney's Space Mountain roller coaster.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Compares Rocket Rides to Disney Roller Coaster

Please keep your hands inside the spacecraft at all times.

By Kristin Houser

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.
Robotics

Robot Arm Uses Bacteria in Its Fingers to “Taste” Its Environment

Robots are becoming better equipped to respond to the world around them.

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Special Forces are developing a device that can detect a person's unique cardiac signature using an IR laser from a distance.
Science & Energy

New Laser Can Identify People From a Distance By Their Heartbeat

The device can detect tiny vibrations caused by heartbeats from over 650 feet away.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Michigan found widespread traces of naturally-occurring dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in the mammalian brain.
Brain

Naturally-Occurring “Mystical” Psychedelic Found in Mammal Brains

The same substance is traditionally used by indigenous people for hallucinogenic episodes.

By Victor Tangermann

Six weeks after Indian authorities promised all of the debris created by their missile test was burned up in the atmosphere, 41 out of 400 pieces remain.
Future Society

Dangerous Debris From India’s Exploded Satellite Still Orbiting Earth

"That kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight."

By Victor Tangermann

JD Composites used more than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles to construct this beachfront home in Meteghan River, Nova Scotia.
Future Society

You Won’t Be Able to Tell This House Is Made From Plastic Bottles

More than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles went into making the 3-bedroom abode.

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.
Physics

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

And we can now produce it using a mechanical object.

By Dan Robitzski

To prevent shootings, schools and public places are installing "aggression detectors" for monitoring students for angry behavior before it becomes violence.
Future Society

“Aggression Detectors” Monitoring Students Don’t Really Work

By listening in to students' conversations, the tech is supposed to detect anger before it leads to violence.

By Natalie Coleman