futurism

The New York Times pulled a story claiming police found watermelons on Mars, but we're still holding out hope.

Today, when you see an eerie child lift a toy with its mind in some hackneyed ‘80s-horror homage, you can be…

Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology,…

With the decade winding down it’s time for us to set our sights on the next one. The 2020s promises to be anything…

What if, after a deadly cyberwar eradicated technology as we know it today, humanity attempted to rebuild our tech-ob…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a bizarre speech on Tuesday night at the United Nations General Assembly that…

Computer scientists have developed a card-playing bot, called Pluribus, capable of defeating some of the world’s…

During a recent experiment at Boston Children’s Hospital, bioengineers used a robotic catheter to reach a leaky…

Want to feel old? The year 2009 was 10 years ago. No, really. And if you want to feel really old, here’s a video…

By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a…

Smartphones have been boring for years. They’re just glass rectangles that connect to the internet and take photos.…

Artificial intelligence in its current form is mostly harmless, but that’s not going to last. Machines are getting…

The path toward humanoid robots capable of transforming themselves into trucks, dinosaurs, and airplanes is now a…

The internet has entered into a new era, forcing us to second-guess virtually everything we see, hear, and read. In…

A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and…

The advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence will make 75 million jobs obsolete by the year 2022,…

Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a…

Security experts have identified thousands of instances in which owners of 3D printers have made their devices…

For the first time ever, scientists have 3D-printed an array of light sensors onto an eyeball-shaped surface.…

Humanoid robots are still relatively primitive here in the 21st century. Sure, we have Roombas that can vacuum our…