The Future

Measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring.

The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”

Researchers in Singapore invented a novel device that may help the island nation illuminate its growing underground infrastructure.

The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.

A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.

Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. Could a device do the same?

Do they really need the human touch?

Robot developers adapt the behavior of worm “blobs”.

Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.

Introducing the Deep Space Food Challenge.

A crash course in the history of money, the birth of Bitcoin, and blockchain technology.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.

Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.

Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.

Max Planck Institute scientists crash into a computing wall there seems to be no way around.

Can biomaterials help finally thrust perovskite solar cells to mainstream adoption?

The AI constitution can mean the difference between war and peace—or total extinction.

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.

Boston Dynamics’ notorious robot goes on an interplanetary mission.

Allergies might never be a concern again.

She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.

Is Bitcoin akin to ‘digital gold’?

A new MIT report proposes how humans should prepare for the age of automation and artificial intelligence.

Researchers make the case for “deep evidential regression.”

New book explores a future populated with robot helpers.

A study finds 1.8 billion trees and shrubs in the Sahara desert.

Can we stop a rogue AI by teaching it ethics? That might be easier said than done.

An accident left this musician with one arm. Now he is helping create future tech for others with disabilities.

It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.

Dominique Crenn, the only female chef in America with three Michelin stars, joins Big Think Live.