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The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
A “bio-battery” made from genetically engineered bacteria could store excess renewable energy and release it as needed.
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they’re saying. Humans are easily fooled.
Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.
Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.
Now they’re pointing the way to future battery technologies.
But does Amazon know when you’re tired or hungry?
Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.
Meet the power plant of the future.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
If the metaverse is money, then companies will certainly want to play, too.
A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
One research group’s AI-based drug discovery platform could be redesigned to discover VX nerve agent and 40,000 similar chemical weapons.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.