Future tech

Future tech

Increasingly people are starting to acknowledge the importance of strategic planning for sustainable development. This might mean horizon scanning for your organisation or perhaps reading one of the government's Foresight Reports. Whether it is touchscreen tablets, holograms, robotics or cloud computing, technology can have a huge impact on our future. The internet, invented only 25 years ago, is a good example of how information technology has changed our world.

These 4 kitchen gadgets are about to change how we cook

Meet the next hot trends in cooking tech that might put your air fryer to shame
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With this gadget, you could grow your own meat at home

A citizen science company is teaching people how to grow their own meat from a few bizarre ingredients
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5 mind-blowing inventions turning humans into real-life cyborgs

A future where humans can lift incredible weights, see in the dark and fly sounds far-fetched, but it’s already here
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Here's what Trump's space strategy means for future Mars landings

The American president wants boots on the Moon and eyes on Mars – but his budget aims to slash NASA’s funding by nearly a quarter
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What will spacesuits of the future look like?

Spacesuits of the future could recycle an astronaut's pee back into drinking water
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Could scientists upload an animal brain to a computer?

From tiny worms to cloning yourself, welcome to the weird science of brain uploads
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These are science’s boldest ideas to cool our heating planet

As Earth's climate continues to warm, experts are increasingly wondering if we could, and should, take more drastic action and start tinkering with the planet in the hope of saving it
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What if we built a super-collider around the Moon?

Scientists have considered putting a super-collider on the Moon. What benefits would this have over the Large Hadron Collider at CERN?
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'It is truly a reversal': Scientists may have found how to stop brain ageing

A protein in your brain could be the culprit of memory loss in later life
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10 of the world's worst-ever inventions

From the electric tricycle to parachute coat, these are some of the most poorly received devices developed around the globe.
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This ingenious new invention could mean the end of palm oil

This alternative could protect forests and reduce greenhouse gases, from products small suburban breweries
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The 9 weirdest (and most secretive) futuristic weapons

Lasers, AI sentinels and orbital bombers are part of a new technological arms race of futuristic weapons
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Here's how astronauts will soon solve murders in space

Houston, we have a homicide
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New smart pill could let doctors explore and treat your gut from the inside

Scientists say this could be the start of a "new generation" of tech, capable of hacking the gut microbiome
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Most doomsday preppers have it wrong. This is actually how to survive the apocalypse

Should you join the underground movement? And if so, how?
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This new experiment could take us closer to a theory of everything

A new experiment could reveal how quantum mechanics interacts with Einstein's theory of general relativity
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An airbag for your head? This inventor thinks inflatable helmets are the future of cycle safety

Commuting safely by bike means finding something to do with your helmet when you reach your destination. A British company thinks you should deflate it
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What would a fusion energy disaster look like?

A nuclear fusion disaster would be nothing like a nuclear fission disaster
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Will suspended animation ever exist?

The truth about freezing humans: what’s real, what’s next, and what’s still fiction
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Is artificial intelligence giving us false memories?

It's only a problem that could get worse
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Can humans live under the sea? This live experiment plans to find out

An advanced new research station is being developed to explore the potential for a human settlement under the ocean
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Quantum science is humanity's next giant leap. Here's what that means for planet Earth

Quantum physics is really confusing, but scientists are finally beginning to make some sense of it all
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How is antimatter stored?

Engineers at CERN are planning to store and transport antiprotons in a very-high vacuum enclosure
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Strange signals are reaching us from a dead galaxy. Here's what we know...

New discoveries are shaking up what little we thought we knew about fast radio bursts
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