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.
Incredible footage shows cyborg cockroaches swimming in tiny diving suits
An experimental new oxygen tank for cyborg cockroaches has been invented – and it actually works
How to survive the apocalypse, according to the world's best doomsday preppers
Should you join the underground movement? And if so, how?
I tried Ferrari's most hated car yet – and came away impressed
From its patents to its dashboard, the Luce is more radical than the outrage suggests
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Why the US may be unprepared for a deadly storm season
As storm season begins, America's weather service is still reeling from sweeping cuts. And the consequences could be fatal
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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The ‘legged metamachines’ that absolutely will not stop need to be seen to be believed
Could we create sunlight on demand?
Reflect Orbital wants to help supercharge your solar panels using space mirrors
Why Silicon Valley is betting big on data centres in space
Space data centres could be a new frontier for humanity, but can the promise live up to the hype?
I went inside the fake Moon base where astronauts prepare for real lunar missions
Our writer was lucky enough to step inside a project that recreates the lunar surface in as much detail as possible
The $50m time-travelling gamble to save the Amazon rainforest
An ambitious project about to get underway intends to see how the trees will respond to the CO2 levels of the future
7 ways we're trusting AI too much – and already paying for it
For the past four years, AI has been reshaping how we work and live. But its failures are proving just as transformative as its triumphs
A global food crisis is nearing – and the warning signs are buried beneath your feet
The world's soils are degrading fast, and until now we've had almost no way of knowing what's happening underground
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Scientists have invented a way to erase bad memories. But should we?
We may soon be able to delete bad memories for ever. But forgetting comes at a cost
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Stroboscopic light therapy started in the lab, detoured through wellness culture, and arrived somewhere genuinely interesting
You fart 32 times a day on average. Scientists built this underwear to prove it
A new (under)wearable sensor sits in your pants and sniffs your farts, in the hopes of revealing clues about your gut health
Apple turns 50: 8 products that changed the world
Here's a look at some of the company’s iconic products, the flops that shaped it, and what may be coming next
Inside the bizarre race to secure Earth’s nuclear tombs
With nuclear energy production increasing globally, the problem of what to do with the waste demands a solution. But where do you store something that stays dangerous for thousands of years?
The deepest hole on Earth: Inside the race to harness unlimited power from our planet's core
While harnessed geothermal heat help plants grow at the Eden Project, advanced new technology could turn it into a renewable source of clean, green energy for all.
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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The latest batch of AI models are revealing a host of vulnerabilities across the worldwide web. Soon, they could be in the wrong hands
10 ingenious inventions about to change our world forever
From nano-medics, to digital twins and space janitors
Your reality really could be a simulation, say experts. Here’s why
As computers grow ever more powerful, the idea we could be living in a simulation is looking less like science fiction every day
We’re closer than ever to bringing back life from cryogenic freezing
Astronauts in cryosleep is one of science fiction's most enduring fantasies – but a new study suggests the gap between fiction and reality just got a little smaller
