Futurism

To help combat the growing concern of space debris in orbit around Earth, NASA is pondering the construction of a giant laser that could help knock potentially harmful chunks of debris from the sky.

A surprisingly high number of people in the United Kingdom seem to believe that lightsabers, memory-erasing technology and time travel are all possible.

The Geminoid DK project at Osaka University is producing androids that are becoming more lifelike each day.

In cooperating with the French Culinary Institute of New York City, Cornell University engineers have developed a method of printing real, edible food.

Newly discovered caves on our moon could very well lead to the future moon outpost that is vital towards our hopes of exploring our solar system.

Researchers at China's Fudan University have come up with a theory that could very well lead to the advent of a Star Trek-like tractor beam.

Researchers at China's Southeast University of Nanjing have moved closer to cloaking technology by being able to alter an object's appearance on radar scopes.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have built the world's smallest computer: a one cubic millimeter machine that is designed to monitor the eye pressure of glaucoma patients.

Robert Krulwich can't believe Kevin Kelly is correct about technologies never disappearing. But even if it's true, are past results a guarantee of future progress?

A sleek, design-fictional robot railway inspector promises to make costly train derailments a thing of the past. It's a harbinger of the ambient, automated infrastructure to come�and a reminder that the future lies in the inevitable and necessary failure of beautiful ideas. Video after the jump.