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Topics and developments in science and medicine, presented by Futurism.
A Giant Spinning Cylinder for a Million People: Scientists Reveal Their Most Ambitious Habitat Concept Yet
Imagine walking through a city where the horizon curves upward instead of disappearing into the distance, where sunlight pours in through angled mirrors rather than an open sky, and where lush green parks stretch not across the ground, but along the rising interior walls of an enormous rotating world. This is not a scene from a sci-fi blockbuster. It is a new large-scale engineering proposal developed by a team of astrophysicists and space architects: a massive, rotating space cylinder designed to host up to one million permanent residents.
By Holianyk Ihor2 months ago in Futurism
Australia Cloud Storage Market: Data Security, Digital Transformation & the Rise of Scalable Storage Solutions. AI-Generated.
According to IMARC Group, the Australia cloud storage market reached USD 2,351.80 Million in 2024. Looking ahead, the market is projected to rise to USD 9,225.23 Million by 2033, registering a strong CAGR of 16.40% during 2025–2033.
By Kevin Cooper2 months ago in Futurism
Are We Becoming Cyborgs? A Look at Humanity’s Future in a Tech-Obsessed World
The last 100 years have been downright crazy when it comes to technological progress. I mean, for thousands of years, humans slowly invented things, but nothing, nothing compares to what we’ve seen in just a single century. We went from horse-drawn carriages to landing on the moon, and now we’ve got phones that can basically do everything… except, unfortunately, make us a sandwich.
By Areeba Umair2 months ago in Futurism
Scientists Witness a New Planet Forming in Real Time — A First in Human History
Astronomy has always dealt in enormous timescales. Stars take millions of years to ignite, galaxies evolve over billions, and planets emerge so slowly that their formation has long been considered impossible to observe directly. Scientists usually reconstruct these events like cosmic detectives, working with faint hints and fragmented data.
By Holianyk Ihor2 months ago in Futurism
Astronomers Detect a Strange Object That “Blinks” Every 20 Minutes — and No One Knows What It Is
Astronomy has a way of humbling everyone who dares to believe we finally understand the Universe. Just when scientists start to think the cosmic inventory is complete, something unexpected appears and shatters the sense of certainty. This time, the surprise comes in the form of a mysterious radio object that behaves unlike anything seen before: it blinks with perfect regularity once every 20 minutes.
By Holianyk Ihor2 months ago in Futurism
Titan’s Strange “Wandering Dunes”: A Discovery That Redraws the Map of This Alien World
When the Cassini spacecraft first mapped the surface of Titan with radar, researchers realized they were looking at one of the most Earth-like worlds in the Solar System—but in a dark, chemically exotic form. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a place of methane rains, hydrocarbon lakes, seasonal storms, and dense orange haze. Its valleys, channels, and sedimentary plains resemble terrestrial landscapes carved by water and wind, only here the fluids are liquid hydrocarbons and the “sediment” is organic dust.
By Holianyk Ihor2 months ago in Futurism
A TRIPLE BLACK HOLE SYSTEM IS SPIRALING INWARD — AND ASTRONOMERS HAVE FINALLY CAUGHT IT IN ACTION
For the first time in observational astronomy, researchers have witnessed something once considered so rare that it bordered on theoretical speculation: a system of three black holes simultaneously spiraling toward one another. This extraordinary discovery offers a new window into the evolution of galactic cores, the mechanisms that accelerate black hole mergers, and the origins of some of the most powerful gravitational-wave events ever detected.
By Holianyk Ihor2 months ago in Futurism
How Accurate Interstellar Really Is?
When Interstellar hit theaters in 2014, it didn’t just entertain audiences , it rewired our brains. Christopher Nolan didn’t want another sci-fi fantasy. He wanted a film where space looked like space, where gravity behaved like gravity, and where black holes appeared the way the universe actually paints them. And standing behind him was Nobel Prize winning physicist Kip Thorne, whose job was to keep the movie grounded in real physics…at least, as real as physics allows when you’re folding spacetime like origami.
By Sakuni Bandara2 months ago in Futurism
What if we travel at the speed of light?
Imagine strapping yourself into a spaceship, its engines thrumming with power, and leaving Earth behind. You accelerate, faster and faster, slicing through the void of space. What would the universe look like if you approached the speed of light? How would reality warp before your eyes?
By Sakuni Bandara2 months ago in Futurism
The day the Sun dies...
Control Tower: “Horizon, this is Mission Control. Final systems check complete. Countdown begins in “10…” The cabin thrummed beneath our boots. My heart matched the rhythm of the engines, deep and steady, like a giant taking long breaths.
By Sakuni Bandara2 months ago in Futurism
Astronomers Discover an Ultra-Rare Binary: Two Red Giant Stars on the Brink of Collision
Astronomers have announced a discovery that is already being called one of the most extraordinary stellar findings of the decade: a binary system made of two enormous red giant stars so close to each other that their bloated atmospheres are practically brushing together. Systems like this are so rare that many astrophysicists doubted they could survive long enough to be observed at all. Yet this newly identified pair is not only real—it is entering a catastrophic final phase that could end in a spectacular merger.
By Holianyk Ihor2 months ago in Futurism
