Futuristic

Liftoff is set for 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT). The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites to join its growing megaconstellation in orbit today (Feb .17) and you can watch the action live online. …

Update! (December 2019) CtrlShiftFace has a new video Home Stallone produced with Paperspace: Deepfake technology is unlocking a new era of media production. As with all technologies, both positive and harmful use cases exist. As ethical technologists, we aspire to…

These supremely stable particles could explain dark matter. After decades of poking around in the math behind the glue holding the innards of all matter together, physicists have found a strange hypothetical particle, one that…

Urban exploration is easily my favorite trend on the internet. Photographers from all over the world have taken to their own backyards and wandered the abandoned buildings and towns nearby. It’s easy to see why…

One of his superstitions was walking around a block three times before actually entering the building. As you can see, he was obsessed with number 3. He only lived in hotel rooms with the number…

The world’s largest solar telescope has revealed its first detailed image of the sun. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar telescope, captured its first image of the sun — the highest-resolution image…

Neutrinos, so-called “ghost particles” scattered across the universe, can be 10 million times lighter than the mass of an electron, according to a new study. Neutrinos are referred to as ghostly because they are extremely…

Decades-old questions about the potential existence of fantastical anti-gravity propulsion technologies have resurfaced following the Navy’s own disclosure of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena and our own original reporting on a series of bizarre patents assigned to the U.S. Navy that seem to defy…

Every night, humans have an average of 6-10 dreams. A few minutes after being awoken, these dreams are usually forgotten. However, what if there’s actual meaning to dreams that would make them more lucrative to…

Is it better to free your mind? Or live in blissful ignorance? Two WIRED writers argue it out. Sometimes existing on the internet can feel like being trapped in that dark room with Morpheus, the…

The Benben stone is an object found in the mythology of ancient Egypt. It is a stone with a conical shape and, according to some theorists, may be of extraterrestrial origin. The Benben stone is also an…

Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare. Wallops island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near…

The great distances covered by visiting “aliens” may be ones of time rather than space, a recent book argues. Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have captured the public’s attention over the decades. As exoplanet detection is on the…