Every three months, participants in the Metaculus forecasting cup try to predict the future for a prize pot of about $5,000. Metaculus, a forecasting platform, poses questions of geopolitical ...

Thinking about human appearance far into the future tends to drift into science fiction, but the question is rooted in real science. Human bodies have never been fixed. They have shifted with climate, ...

As a child, I was captivated by the promise of personal computers, mesmerized by the glow of light, full of potential ideas radiating from the screen. That fascination ignited a lifelong passion for ...

Scientist and futurist Raymond Kurzweil envisions a future in which humans have overcome the limits of aging. We’ve all seen the movies. Sometime in a distant future, humans have solved the riddle of ...

I see the surge in interest around empathy, EQ and psychological safety as a response to imbalance rather than a rejection of ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover produced breathable oxygen on Mars on April 20, 2021, marking the first time humans manufactured a ...