Millennials, roughly those born from 1980-2000, are often criticized as lazy and entitled. While that may hold true to some extent, millennials are also the most adaptable, creative generation in history.
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an apparent proof of “time crystals” which could demonstrate a special form of perpetual motion.
As 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, picks up steam in industrial manufacturing and spurs the public imagination, scientists say the next frontier is 4-D printing: materials that fabricate themselves.
Futurist Marcus T. Anthony explains why he is optimistic about the future, and why courageous pioneers like you will bring the Big Mind Shift into being.
Futurist Marcus T. Anthony explains why he is optimistic about the future, and why courageous pioneers like you will bring the Big Mind Shift into being.
Depending on who you’re listening to, Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, are either the greatest boon to the spread of knowledge since Gutenberg cranked his first press or the biggest threat to learning on campus since the coming of cheap beer….
Recent breakthroughs in wireless charging is making it commercially practical for everything from electronic devices to vehicles…
In the 1950s, a small team of engineers set to work on a secret program called Project 1794—a supersonic craft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. Now a trove of declassified documents reveals the audacious mission to build a flying saucer.
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and the Henry Semat Professor at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
A new device can transform most forms of household plastic waste into filament for 3D printing, as well as recycle failed 3D printing projects for another go-round.
Lord Mayor Frank Jensen of Copenhagen recently announced that the city is on track for 2025 carbon neutrality. If measures implemented to reach this important milestone are successful, Copenhagen would be the first city in the world to do so.
As a longtime reader of science fiction, it’s always interesting to see how the visions of writers eventually become real. Take Arthur C. Clarke’s letter to Wireless World in 1945, which details the geostationary communications satellite network everyone uses today. So inspired by these writers and others, I decided to take a look at 2012 and the futuristic technologies that are materializing before our eyes…
Sir John Gurdon, whose work cloning frogs in the 1950s and 60s led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh scientists in 1996, said that progression to human cloning could happen within half a century.
Ray Kurzweil, author and controversial thinker, announced on Friday that he will join Google as a director of engineering; he’ll focus on projects involving machine learning and language processing. Kurzweil is best known for his theory of “technology singularity,” essentially a claim that posits that mankind will create a post-human collective superintelligence through means of advancements in technology.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is out with its annual forecast of what the world will look like in 2050. The report focuses on six “gamechanging” trends and events that will shape the world in the coming years.
