This week: Solar-powered plane to cross USA, Orbital’s first rocket test launch a success, and robotic dragonflies take to the sky
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Living in the Future: April 15, 2013
This week: The solution to invasive species: eat them! Planting a 100-year forest study; and a hexapod transport robot reminiscent of DocOc from Spiderman.
Living in the Future: April 8, 2013
This week: efficient ionic wind engines, NASA’s “lassoing” asteroids challenge, and cheap computers on a chip: the Raspberry Pi
Living in the Future: April 1, 2013
This week on We are Living in the Future: 3d Printing of Food, Human/Mice hybrids reveal secrets of human intellect, and fuel produced from sunlight and CO2 by Cyanobacteria.
Living in the Future: More than 500 clones from a single cell, paint-on-plastic electronics and touchscreens that know you
This week on We are Living in the Future: Scientists in Japan set a new world record for number of clones from a single cell, having cloned 581 full mice. If their techniques can be used in other places, science may have the tools to make perfect genetic tests – a single genome for testing [...]
Living in the Future: 3D Digital Archaeology, Community-Fiber Cable & Phasers
This week on We are Living in the future: Archaeologists use 3D imaging and printing to reconstruct priceless artifacts, an area of rural Britain installs Fiber cable themselves, and scientists design a “phaser” which uses sound waves instead of light waves.
Living in the Future: Search for ET made easier, Telepathic implants, and mild shocks to the brain treat Parkinsons
This week on We Are Living in the Future: Scientists get a break while searching for extraterrestrial life, as finding oxygen atmospheres is much easier around white dwarf stars – or stars that have used up most of the fuel and shrunk to a small size. Despite their small size, planets with an atmosphere can [...]
Living in the Future: Spider Silk can Stop a Train, “Tricorders” on the horizon, and Carbon Storage through Adsorbtion
This week on We are Living in the Future: Spider silk is often referred to as stronger than Kevlar, or steel – but physics students at the University of Leicester have shown that it has “super powers” too. Inspired by the movie “Spider Man 2″, where Spider Man uses his webbing to stop a speeding [...]
Living in the Future: Cyborgs who hear colors, real-life tractor beams, and proteins folding on “film”
This week on We are Living in the Future: People who have been augmented with technology to aid them have long been called “cyborgs” in science fiction. For one person, this science-fiction term is a reality. Neil Harbisson was born with a rare genetic condition that made him completely colorblind. As an adult, he became [...]
Living in the Future: Controlling Electrons, Frozen Puppy Embryos, and Declassified Flying Saucers
This week on We are Living in the Future: It’s long been thought that there’s a limit on the efficiency of power plants, because electrons occasionally get stuck or confused and block the flow through the wires – like plaque in an artery, or a clog in a drainpipe. A new “thermoelectronic” device uses external [...]
