The Most Futuristic Developments We Can Expect in the Next 10 Years
The 2020s will likely feature a volatile mixture of the very good, the very bad, and the very weird.
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The 2020s will likely feature a volatile mixture of the very good, the very bad, and the very weird.
A new telescopic survey of Hygiea, the fourth largest object in the main asteroid belt, suggests it’s a dwarf planet, due to its spherical shape.
The latest in the heat-probe drama that has marred NASA’s InSight lander mission for almost a year now.
These disparities in medicine and elsewhere aren’t exactly a secret.
We didn't start the fire.
They grow up so fast.
“We’ve reached a space in computation that’s new, that no other tool can reach.”
You don’t have discovery moments like this in palaeontology very often.”
Researchers have managed to teach rats how to drive tiny electric cars around in pursuit of food, and the rats apparently love it.
This approach of removing pollutants is called biostimulation – stimulating the bacteria already found in the wild to do the cleanup for you.
Some scientists have had it up to here with cigarettes, no ifs, ands, or butts about it.
“It has been fascinating to put together some of the pieces of that puzzle.”
We might be inching closer to a holy grail of medicine: an incredibly effective flu-killing drug that the virus can’t quickly adapt to.
Even protected sanctuaries are not immune to our trash.
It’s clear that we’ve entered a new era of quantum computing as companies now have noisy but functional devices that may actually be useful soon.
NASA has worked hard to prevent microbes from spreading around the solar system via spacecraft, but its tactics are now woefully out of date.
