Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Their results, published in the journal Science Advances, suggest algae could be part of a brighter, more sustainable future.

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends a warning about unusual activity on an account, or a weather app predicts ...

Russ Altman Ph.D. ’89 MD ’90, professor and host of “The Future of Everything” podcast, says that “if people see that [scientists are] just trying to learn things to make the world better, [that they] ...

Editor’s note (May 19th 2025): On May 16th, MIT said that Aidan Toner-Rodgers was no longer in the MIT PhD program. The university “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. We live in a world where machines can understand speech, recognize faces, and even generate ...

“THERE’S NEVER been anything even close to it—from speed to manoeuverability…to payload,” gushed Donald Trump, as he announced on March 21st that America’s future fighter jet, the F-47, would be built ...

Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its ...

Theodore listening to Samantha in his earpiece in Her - Warner Bros. Here's the secret about science fiction — it's never been about the future. Most sci-fi is a commentary on the present, tweaking ...

The next panel will focus on computer science and in particular on women and information technology from both an academic and industrial perspective. Dr. William Wulf is the President of the National ...