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.
Elon Musk? AI? ‘Crazy left-wing activists’? The man who built Wikipedia explains its biggest threats
25 years and millions of articles later, Wikipedia is the biggest bank of human knowledge on the web
6 (very weird) new inventions that could change your life
From real-life holograms to smart contact lenses – these inventions are bringing science fiction into reality
Scientists are now closer than ever to scarless healing
Healing a wound without leaving a scar is something we could all do while in the womb. But unlocking this ability after birth has proven impossible. Until now…
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Scientists spent years teaching a robot to play sports. It's still terrible
Robot sporting events could become more common in the coming years – but there's one problem
These are the traits most likely to make you a killer, according to police AI
AI is being trained to spot future killers – and it’s already making eerily accurate predictions. But can we trust it to get it right every time?
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
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
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
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
What will spacesuits of the future look like?
Spacesuits of the future could recycle an astronaut's pee back into drinking water
Could scientists upload an animal brain to a computer?
From tiny worms to cloning yourself, welcome to the weird science of brain uploads
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
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?
'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
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.
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
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
Here's how astronauts will soon solve murders in space
Houston, we have a homicide
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
Most doomsday preppers have it wrong. This is actually how to survive the apocalypse
Should you join the underground movement? And if so, how?
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
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
What would a fusion energy disaster look like?
A nuclear fusion disaster would be nothing like a nuclear fission disaster
Will suspended animation ever exist?
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