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• New poll

• The results of the previous poll can be seen here

9th September

• The Serengeti Highway

• Coastal erosion due to rising sea levels has been dramatically underestimated

8th September

• Breast cancer survival could reach 100% by 2034; physically active lifestyle helps lower risk

• Dawn probe update

• Record-breaking distance for quantum teleportation

7th September

• Sight - a short futuristic film (HD)

6th September

• First commercial wave farm gets go-ahead in the U.S.

• Cheetah robot can run faster than humans

5th September

• 2040 - China's HSR network has been greatly expanded

2nd September

• High-tech ferry cuts fuel consumption by 50-100%

• World's first HIV/AIDS nanomedicines

1st September

• Mars One receives first funding for 2023 manned mission to Mars

• 2020 - A cure for malaria

• A cheap, human-powered washing machine for the developing world

• African researchers identify strong candidate for possible single-dose malaria cure

31st August

• World's first prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes

30th August

• Intel and IDT to develop wireless charging technology

28th August

• Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent ever recorded

25th August

• R.I.P. Neil Armstrong, 1930–2012

• 2017 - A new treatment for prostate cancer

• 2014 - Google Glass is launched to the public

23rd August

• 2016 - InSight touches down on Mars

• Sea life 'on the brink of a major extinction event'

• Lifelike, cost-effective robotic hand can disable IEDs

22nd August

• Mars descent video

• LG launches world's first 84-inch UD 3D TV

• Flood risk ranking reveals vulnerable cities

19th August

• 2021 - Male birth control pills are entering the market

• DNA storage breakthrough

18th August

• "Brain hacking" may be possible in the future

• 2014 - India's first Mars mission

16th August

• Male birth control pill moves a step closer

14th August

• American wind power reaches 50-gigawatt milestone

13th August

• New poll

• The results of the previous poll can be seen here

• New featured video

• More effective treatments for stress and depression could be on the way

12th August

• Mitt Romney announces Paul Ryan as vice-presidential running mate

11th August

• Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors

9th August

• 2015-2019 - Genome sequencing continues to improve exponentially

5th August

• Mars Science Laboratory

• Sainsbury's now the largest solar panel operator in the UK and Europe

• 3D-printed exoskeleton helps young girl use her arms

4th August

• 'Spray-on skin' offers 52% greater healing of leg ulcers

3rd August

• 2026 - Mars Science Laboratory is shutting down

2nd August

• A new treatment target for deadly brain tumors

1st August

• Completion of the International Space Station has been moved from 2012 to 2014.

• 200,000 AD - Constellations visible from Earth have been rendered unrecognisable

• 2023 - Asteroid sample return mission

• FutureTimeline now has an RSS feed (see orange button above).

29th July

• 2000 - The Pyrenean Ibex goes extinct

• 2012 - The Abraj Al-Bait Towers are completed in Mecca

• The entry for Memristor Technology has been moved from 2013 to 2014 - based on a new reference.

• The future of energy

• NASA's Space Launch System passes major review, moves to preliminary design

28th July

• 2040 - Completion of the Northeast Corridor high-speed rail route

22nd July

• 2060-2100 - Global political and economic systems are in a period of immense transition

18th July

• World record: Scientists produce the lightest material in the world

17th July

• A milestone in HIV prevention

• Hypersonic plane to fly at 20 times the speed of sound

14th July

• New featured video.

12th July

• Planetary Resources Inc. announces agreement with Virgin Galactic for payload services

• New biofuel process generates energy 20 times higher than existing methods, and uses agricultural waste

11th July

• 2014 - Better protection against tooth decay

• Hubble discovers a fifth moon orbiting Pluto

8th July

• 2047 - Unmanned probe to 2060 Chiron

• 2035 - World tin reserves are running out

5th July

• Goal-line technology to go ahead

• 2031 - Global reserves of lead are running out

• 2029 - Global reserves of silver are running out

4th July

• 2026 - Global reserves of indium are running out

• CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

3rd July

• 2022 - Global reserves of antimony are running out

2nd July

• Our Facebook page has now reached 1,000 members!

1st July

• Mind-reading scanner helps paralysed to communicate

• 'Paint-on' batteries demonstrated

• 100,000,000 AD - The Milky Way has stabilised from an earlier collision

• Updated 750,000,000 AD with a better image.

30th June

• 2025-2035 - Mouse revival from cryopreservation

• 2025 - Solid waste is reaching crisis levels

• 2025 - A comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. airspace system is complete

• Q&A with Aubrey de Grey

• Mayan archaeologists unearth new 2012 monument

28th June

• Microparticles allow survival without breathing

27th June

• Robot hand is unbeatable against a human opponent

26th June

• 2.56 terabits per second achieved by scientists

25th June

• Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

24th June

• New featured video.

• Robots that can touch and feel?

• Manned mission to Mars has been moved from 2032 to 2033, based on an additional new reference.

23rd June

• 2020 - The UK has expanded its offshore grid connections

21st June

• Scientists block excess aggression in mice

• Inhibition of NF-κB delays aging

• Engineers build 50 gigapixel camera

18th June

• IBM supercomputer becomes the world's fastest

• Indian drug giant Cipla slashes cancer drug prices in a humanitarian move

17th June

• 2050 - China completes the largest water diversion project in history

16th June

• Worldwide decline in physical activity

• The Singularity is Near - movie trailer

14th June

• NASA's "black hole hunter" is launched

13th June

• A major step towards fusion power

• Breakthrough in lithium-ion battery technology could lead to cheaper electric vehicles

• Record high temperatures in the US

• Solar PV installations continue to grow exponentially

• Unreal Engine 4.0 – the next generation of graphics

• European Extremely Large Telescope given go-ahead

12th June

• New poll: Do you support the use of genetically modified (GM) food?

• The results of the previous poll can be seen here.

• Potential carbon capture role for new CO2 absorbing material

11th June

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10th June

• Our blog has now been integrated into the main site. The WordPress version has been archived here in its entirety.

3rd June

• Biology & Medicine > Bacteriophage therapy

• Blog post: The Geopolitics of Climate Change

2nd June

• 2015 - LED lamps dominate the commercial and domestic lighting markets

• Blog post: Climate change milestone: CO2 reaches 400ppm in the Arctic

• Blog post: A permanent base on Mars by 2023?

1st June

• Blog post: Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain mapping

• Edited the Andromeda-Milky Way galaxy merger. This has been moved from 3 billion to 3.8 billion AD, based on two new references. Plus it now includes a GIF animation, showing how the merger would appear in the night sky.