Future Timeline

From Throwing Soup to Suing Governments, There’s Strategy to Climate Activism’s Seeming Chaos − Here’s Where It’s Headed Next by Shannon Gibson Introduction: (The Conversation) Climate activism has been on a wild ride lately, from the shock tactics of young activists throwing soup on famous paintin...

Atmospheric River to Bring "Life-threatening" Flooding to Southern California by Andrew Freedman Updated February 3, 2024 Introduction: (Axios) The strongest atmospheric river event of the season is set to begin Saturday night and early Sunday morning from north to south in California. Th...

Nevada Has Both a GOP Primary and Caucuses. Why? by Nicole Narea February 2, 2024 Introduction: (Vox) Nevada is doing things differently this election season, and not necessarily for the better. Former President Donald Trump and his former US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, are compe...

What We’re Getting Wrong About 2024’s “Moderate” Voters by Christian Paz February 2, 2024 Introduction: (Vox) They constitute one of the most valuable, overlooked, and misunderstood chunks of the American electorate: the nation’s mythical moderates. They’re a complicated bunch. They’re often descri...

The French Farmers’ Protests are More Complex Than They Seem by Ellen Iaones February 3, 2024 Introduction: (Vox) French farmers’ unions on Thursday called a halt to protests in which they’ve blocked traffic with their tractors and dumped manure and rotting produce in front of government buildings ...

Better Fake Muscles Give Robot Fish Real Kick by Eth Zurich February 2, 2024 Introduction: (Futurity) Researchers have developed artificial muscles for robot motion. Their solution offers several advantages over previous technologies: it can be used wherever robots need to be soft rather than rigid...

Fossilized 350 Million-Year-Old Plant Is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen Before by Eleanor Higgs February 2, 2024 Introduction: (IFL Science) While fossilized plants turn up fairly often in the fossil record, they are usually preserved as a trunk or the odd leaf, giving little idea of what the whole ...

Machine Learning to Battle COVID-19 Bacterial Co-infection February 1, 2024 Introduction: (Eurekalert) University of Queensland researchers have used machine learning to help predict the risk of secondary bacterial infections in hospitalised COVID-19 patients. The machine learning technique can hel...

3D-printed Pneumatic Modules Replace Electric Controls in Soft Robots February 1, 2024 Introduction: (Eurekalert) In the future, soft robots will be able to perform tasks that cannot be done by conventional robots. These soft robots could be used in terrain that is difficult to access and in enviro...