Futurism

Earth may look like a planet of water, but fire is more unusual in the universe

The interconnected world of global trade is collapsing—and climate change may be driving it

How infinite is mathematical infinity?

In February 2025, a paper appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reporting a small oddity with outsized implications. Lior Shamir, a computer scientist at Kansas State University, had run an automated analysis on 263 galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Adva

REMspace and the emerging science of interactive dreaming Most technologies begin as prosthetics for the waking day. We build tools that extend our hands, our hearing, our memory. Then someone asks the more unsettling question: what about the third of our lives spent elsewhere, behind closed eyelids, in that private cinema where identity can split…

To understand room-temperature superconductors, we first need to grasp what a superconductor is. A superconductor is a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance – meaning, an electric current can flow through it without any energy lost as heat. This phenomenon, discovered in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, is extraordinary because in ordinary conductors (like…

As Americans struggle with affordable housing and developing nations experience population surges, something occurred to me. About a decade ago 3D printed housing was supposed to help pull us into a new era of construction. Why hasn’t it happened? Let’s lay some groundwork. 3D-printed homes, built by robotic systems that extrude material (usually a concrete-based…