The Future

Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.

The revolution is already happening.

Say hello to your new colleague, the Workplace Environment Architect.

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.

These prices are too good to pass up on.

It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

A new method could make holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, and more. You can even run it can run on a smartphone.

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.