Future16 Mar 2024In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire housesIn the struggle to combat pollution and fight climate change, a growing number of scientists are beginning to look to one of nature’s oldest biotechnologies: fungi16 Mar 202412 Dec 2023The striking prescience of a 1920s book seriesA century ago, a little-known series of books about the future tackled everything from science to monogamy. Max Saunders argues that it deserves to be rediscovered.12 Dec 202326 Jul 2023The illustration of an atomic mishapIn 1946, a dangerous radioactive apparatus in the Manhattan Project killed a scientist when his screwdriver slipped. Ben Platts-Mills pieced together what happened inside the room.26 Jul 20238 Aug 2022How to save trillions of human livesLongtermism is a perspective that there is a moral reason to consider how the actions and decisions we take today affect the lives of huge numbers of future people.8 Aug 202226 Dec 202037 memories of 2020 worth keepingIf we were to create a time capsule of objects that captured life in 2020, what might we choose?26 Dec 202011 Aug 2017The world's ultimate spyplaneThe Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the world's fastest plane, capable of cruising at three times the speed of sound.11 Aug 201721 Nov 2014Could Terminator actually happen?The sci-fi film series imagined a future in which robots become sentient and go to war with humankind. How likely is this? Hannah Fry investigates.21 Nov 201418 Nov 2014Worth the weight?Giant, spinning space-stations that generate their own artificial gravity have been envisaged for decades. So, why has no one built one?18 Nov 201418 Nov 2014News 2050: ‘Hypersonic take-off’The first flights at six times the speed of sound and light pollution forces astronomers to close the last telescope on Earth, in the fifth of our news reports18 Nov 2014...