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Topics and developments in science and medicine, presented by Futurism.
Rocket City Moon Kitty
Rocket City, a place with plenty of space... Outer space. The actual amount of space here may be a bit squishy with the population growth. An aerospace NASA town where the main college takes that major so seriously, many who started with that engineering had to swap to another type. At Big Spring Park everyone gathers for the rocket launching competition. Cute small rockets line up ready for the go.
By Seashell Harpspring 3 days ago in Futurism
Paul Dirac: The Genius Who Spoke One Word an Hour
Introduction Some brilliant scientists dominate a room through their personality, conversation and confidence. Paul Dirac achieved the opposite because he could enter a room, remain almost completely silent, and still become its most remarkable person.
By Alan Spencer11 days ago in Futurism
How Claude Almost Solved the Riemann Hypothesis
Introduction In August 2026, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that an experimental version of Claude had made unexpected progress on the Riemann hypothesis. This is one of the most famous and difficult unsolved problems in mathematics.
By Alan Spencer13 days ago in Futurism
The Particle That Knows the Future
Quantum physics describes a world that appears to behave very differently from everyday reality. A particle can exist in several possible states, produce an interference pattern as though it followed several paths, and remain mysteriously connected with another particle across an enormous distance.
By Alan Spencer13 days ago in Futurism
Are We Living in a Simulation?
The idea that humanity may be living inside a simulation has moved from the pages of science fiction into serious scientific and philosophical discussion. What once sounded like the plot of a futuristic film is now debated by physicists, computer scientists and philosophers around the world. The question itself is deeply unsettling because it challenges the very nature of reality and existence. If our universe is artificial, then everything we experience, from the stars above us to our own thoughts and emotions, could be part of an immense computational system beyond human understanding.
By Alan Spencer14 days ago in Futurism
Static Ovah the Kennebec
Linda always said Bowdoinham mornings looked like God forgot to turn the brightness up. Fog rolled in thick and low, swallowing the rivah, the trees, and half the Town Landing like it was tryin’ to erase the place one bite at a time. She stood theyah at 7:12 AM, sippin’ coffee that tasted like burnt driftwood and bad decisions, watchin’ the Kennebec breathe like some big creature sleepin’ under the surface.
By Syl De'Vil15 days ago in Futurism
Stitch: Saltwater Silence
Sara Foxgrove remembered the last normal moment of her childhood as something small and quiet. She sat on the back steps of her mother’s cabin 0n Popham Beach, peeling bark off a stick and pretending it was a wand, the kind that could call storms or open secret doors if she pointed it just right. The tide had pulled back far enough that the sandbar stretched toward Fox Island like a pale, exposed spine. Her mother, Mara, wasn’t home. Neither were her father or her brothers. They had left an hour earlier to drive into Bath for groceries and a part her father needed for the woodstove. They’d promised to be back before the tide turned. Sara had waved as the car disappeared down the dirt road, not knowing it was the last time she’d ever see them. The afternoon felt suspended, like the world was holding its breath. Even the gulls seemed quieter, circling lazily above the water as if waiting for something.
By Syl De'Vil18 days ago in Futurism
Fifty Millilitres of Everything . Winner in Already Here Challenge. Top Story - September 2026.
I'm on deck, coveralls on, waiting for a sample of seawater to be lifted onto deck, where I will then draw seawater into a syringe until it hits the fifty mark. I then push that syringe's worth of seawater through a filter capsule about the size of a torch, screw the cap shut, scribble some things on the cap with a Sharpie, and drop it into a sample bag (posh name for a sandwich bag). That's it. That's the entire collection process to be able to answer the quite literal million dollar question of "what's down there," or to know exactly what species are present in a particular area of the ocean. Something that would have sounded like science fiction to me a few years ago is rapidly becoming the everyday norm.
By Bradley Knight 21 days ago in Futurism
