Future

In 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: fungi

A 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.

In 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.

Longtermism 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.

If we were to create a time capsule of objects that captured life in 2020, what might we choose?

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the world's fastest plane, capable of cruising at three times the speed of sound.

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.

Giant, spinning space-stations that generate their own artificial gravity have been envisaged for decades. So, why has no one built one?