Futurology

Fruit flies share many genetic similarities with humans, making them a valuable model organism for studying brain functions as well as diseases.

As many as 249 lives could have been saved in London during the 2018 record-setting hot summer had the city widely adopted cool roofs, estimates a new study by researchers at UCL and the University of Exeter.

Too warm with a jacket on but too cold without it? Athletic apparel brands boast temperature-controlling fabrics that adapt to every climate with lightweight but warm products. Yet, consider a fabric that you can adjust to fit your specific temperature needs.

A team of engineers at Nanjing University, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new way to extract lithium from briny water.

Getting to the moon takes a lot of small steps, like Europe's new LUNA training facility. But it's not there yet. Next step: a moon gravity simulator.

Making the world more optimistic, one ambitious tech company at a time. Click to read Not Boring by Packy McCormick, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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When size and weight don't matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.

Time is running out to solve the hard problem of humanity’s future: the limits to our knowledge.

Major steps towards better, sustainable and affordable food production free of environmental challenges have been taken, with the "world's first farm to grow indoor, vertically farmed berries at scale" opening in Richmond, VA. It's backed by an international team of scientists that see this new…

Three Earth plants will soon make a new home on the lunar surface.

Flow Computing has developed a new computing architecture that combines parallel processing units with CPUs. By reducing the overhead of parallelization, the company claims it can effectively make a CPU 100 times faster.

Adults with hemophilia B saw their number of bleeding episodes drop by an average of 71% after a single infusion of gene therapy, according to the results of an international Phase III clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Glioblastoma is a brain cancer with very poor survival outcomes. Most drugs can't cross the blood-brain barrier, which means that unlike other cancers, there just aren't that many therapies available for brain tumors.

A research group has developed an innovative method for the biofortification of leaves and other green plant tissues, increasing their content of healthy substances such as beta-carotene, the main precursor of vitamin A in the human diet.

More and more climate scientists are supporting experiments to cool Earth by altering the stratosphere or the ocean

The world's oceans are close to becoming too acidic to properly sustain marine life or help stabilize the climate, a new report said on Monday.

T cells are our first line of defense against cancer, but the battle tends to exhaust them. Now, scientists have found a way to give them extra “batteries” to keep them fighting longer, with promising early results in mice.

In Switzerland on Monday, a 64-year-old woman died in a specially designed ‘suicide capsule’ containing nitrogen gas. It is the first time ever that this suicide capsule, called the Sarco, was used. The capsule, an airtight cabin the size of a coffin, offers, according to its creators, a ‘quick, pea...

UK actuaries report that climate change forecasts of economic impact are “implausible” and “dangerously…benign”

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[Opinion] Major moves in recent weeks show that LCD's days are numbered. But it's great timing for semiconductor makers.

As an estimated four billion people vote to elect new governments in a historic year for democracy, trade unions are campaigning For Democracy at work, in societies, and in global institutions. The fight for democracy in global institutions Millions of workers have already mobilised for policy chang...

The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere

Supporting new technologies can be expensive, but deciding when to wean the public off incentives can be a difficult balancing act.

While it’s too early to say whether graphene will live up to the hype, it’s now appearing in everything from motorcycle helmets to aircon units.

United Nations adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance New York, 22 September 2024 – World leaders today adopted a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. This Pact is the culmination of an inclusive, years...

Cargo bikes are transforming urban logistics in Europe, offering a sustainable alternative to delivery vans.

Jony Ive confirms AI hardware project with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, raising up to $1 billion in funding,

During an international summit, some of the world's foremost AI experts came together to write a definitive dispatch on its dangers.

Compact, inconspicuous antennas could increase cell coverage transparently

The ozone layer is looking as fit as a fiddle at the moment.