Replacing Plastic as the Dominant Material

Might organic life be so rare that it had to be seeded on Earth by an alien species? Could we someday be the ones seeding distant star systems with our own ectoplasmic goo?Find out if this is even pos...

9 Okt 25min

Civilization was born from terror. The earliest monuments to empire, such as the Palette of King Narmer, first king of Egypt, show the free peoples of the time, the "enemies," kneeling, beheaded, and/...

2 Okt 36min

Not just stickers. Digital art implanted under your skin, running for months, maybe years.But — is a digital image you can replace at any time really a tattoo, in spirit? And how far will this go? Wil...

25 Sep 30min

You are a temporary substrate. True intelligence will arrive only when biology has been transcended — i.e. when humanity is extinct, or at least irrelevant.That is the future depicted by many Strategi...

18 Sep 35min

Cyberpunk daydream, or reality by 2075? Maybe a little of both...The biggest surprise: hope for Alzheimer's patients, arriving sometime in the 2040s via a memory prosthetic — a "high confidence" predi...

11 Sep 32min

You can order them today: solar panels that will produce drinking water from the air. But can they scale to entire cities, like Phoenix, which already face a water crisis?Longer-term, does this tech e...

4 Sep 28min

This week we've had our AI superbrain ponder all the knowledge of the world to tell us, once and for all — are space aliens already here? Perhaps teasing us with playful flybys?And if so, or if not, w...

28 Aug 27min

Privacy ends when spy drones shrink to the size of insects, not because cameras are everywhere but because we won't know for sure that any given place is free of them.Is such an invention inevitable? ...

21 Aug 32min