December 17, 2024Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed Futurology
December 16, 2024Over 70% of the world’s aquifers could be tainted by 2100 | Over 2.5 billion people depend on aquifers for fresh water, but rising seas and climate change are pushing saltwater into these crucial reserves. Futurology
December 16, 2024Presolar grains are tiny solid minerals that crystallized in the gas of ancient stars. These crystals are the oldest material ever handled by humans. Presolar grains from the Murchison meteorite belonged to a group of massive stars that perished hundreds of million years before the birth of the Sun. Futurology
December 16, 2024More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research | From June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage Futurology
December 16, 2024Waymo now has 22% market share of taxi journeys in San Francisco, and now exceeds human-driver taxi company Lyft. Futurology
December 15, 2024AI Could Be Making Scientists Less Creative | A new study examining 68 million scientific papers shows using AI boosts researchers’ careers, but narrows the questions they ask. Futurology
December 15, 2024Pentagon announces new AI office as it looks to deploy autonomous weapons Futurology
December 15, 2024Klarna CEO says the company stopped hiring a year ago because AI ‘can already do all of the jobs’ Futurology
December 15, 2024Leading AI Companies Get Lousy Grades on Safety | A new report from the Future of Life Institute gave mostly Ds and Fs Futurology