Pundit predictions of China’s demise are the latest self-consoling illusions of a lazy elite who can’t see the AI writing on the wall. A generation from now, the Chinese won’t remember the misery of Ant […]

Facebook wants people to think it is a responsible platform owner. Facebook has announced a $50 million fund that it says will help it develop the metaverse more responsibly. It’s officially called the XR Programs […]

Holden Karnofsky argues that it’s “wild” to think we’re assured of never spreading throughout the galaxy, but also that it’s “wild” to think that we have a decent chance of spreading throughout the galaxy. In […]

The National Natural Science Foundation of China has called on scientists to join a five-year project to study the mechanics of an “ultra-large spacecraft spanning kilometres”. “[Such a spacecraft] is a major strategic aerospace equipment […]

Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. Here’s what they could learn. In May, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) released new guidelines1 that […]

In this century, humanity is predicted to undergo a transformative experience, the likes of which have not been seen since we first began to speak, fashion tools, and plant crops. This experience goes by various […]

After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI, Elon Musk capped the evening by bringing out a dancer in a spandex suit. Behold, said Musk: my Tesla Bot. Even […]

China is planning regular crewed missions to the Red Planet and wants to build a base there. China plans to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033 as it continues to boost its […]

Firms like Datagen offer an alternative to the expensive, time-consuming process of gathering real-world data. They will make it for you. Once viewed as less desirable than real data, synthetic data is now seen by […]

Experts say three billionaires have upended the traditional model for human spaceflight and are shaping a thriving new era. It was a week in which two space-faring billionaires tussled again in their futuristic game of […]

A group of 40 dream researchers have released an online letter, calling for the regulation of commercial dream manipulation. “People are particularly vulnerable [to suggestion] when asleep,” says Adam Haar, a cognitive scientist and Ph.D. […]

It’s difficult to avoid pessimism in a lethargic, shell-shocked, post-pandemic world. So I turned to the experts. We’re only at the beginning of a strange and demanding decade. Should we—can we—be hopeful? Here’s what they […]

Robert Zubrin describes just how transformative, and how profound, Starship could prove to be to our future in space, and to our understanding of life. I’ve been in this business for a decent chunk of […]

What is Microsoft actually up to in the quantum computing space, how did it get to where it is today, and what’s next for the firm? Microsoft’s investment in quantum goes way back – long […]

The US aerospace company Blue Origin announced that it will be offering one seat on the first NewShepard flight to the winning bidder of an online auction. Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is aiming […]

Japanese billionaire who bought tickets on SpaceX’s Starship announces 8 seats are up for grabs. Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire Japanese fashion CEO who paid big bucks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the first seats on […]

How do we go about crafting a spacefaring civilization? Nick Nielsen has been exploring the issues involved in terms of the choices cultures make and their conception of their future. Some years ago I wrote […]

Researchers in France are testing which fish eggs are best suited to being launched to the moon. Cyrille Przybyla, an aquaculture researcher at the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, dreams of designing […]

Voyager Station will be able to accommodate 400 guests with artificial gravity, its builders say. OAC, a manufacturing firm centered on the colonization of space, discussed Voyager Station during a video press junket late January. […]

As Blue Origin and SpaceX democratize access to space, small companies will get to explore an array of promising new ideas that lie beyond planet Earth. Before space became a frontier for innovation and development […]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s sustainable space exploration company Blue Origin could be taking people off-Earth by summer 2021. According the recent reports, Blue Origin – the space exploration company owned by Jeff Bezos – could […]

Jeff Bezos said the decision to step down was based in part on his desire to focus on Blue Origin, his private space company. “As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives […]

Ditch the Red Planet and build a gargantuan floating habitat around the dwarf planet Ceres instead. In a yet to be peer-reviewed paper, astrophysicist Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki describes his […]

If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences. The moment a group of people stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, news companies began the process of sorting and commoditizing […]

Despite the pandemic, 2020 was a landmark year for the commercial space industry. SpaceX became the first company ever to send humans to space aboard a privately owned spacecraft. The US government continued to work […]

The patent, “Creating a Conversational Chatbot of a Specific Person,” filed last week by Microsoft might sound relatively innocuous, and it probably is, to a certain extent. “In aspects, social data (e.g., images, voice data, […]

While the world was distracted by the drama of the U.S. presidential election, Xi quietly unveiled an economic strategy fit for a new Cold War. Back in August, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a […]

BuzzFeed connected with some of the world’s leading futurists and asked them to forecast what the years to come might bring. Synthetic biology — a new engineering approach to biology that lets us redesign cells […]

Singapore’s approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across industry. The “chicken bites”, produced by the US company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency […]

Nilay Patel talks with Sal Khan, the co-founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online learning platform for students in kindergarten through higher education. Sal and I talked about the future of learning, what […]