Editor's NoteThis is part of our Futurist Forum series, where we've been exploring what the future will look like. See more forecasts here.As complex ecosystems, cities are confronting tremendous pressures to seek optimum efficiency with minimal impa...
A few years ago, when theoretical physicist Michio Kaku took on the future of computing in his thankfully short lived Big Think series, I pointed out the many things he got wrong. Most of them were...
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Though it sounds suspiciously like Kurt Vonnegut's ice-nine from Cat's Cradle, a materials chemist at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands has concocted a polymer that could turn an entire swimming pool into jelly.
Researchers used trinary to take advantage of DNA's four bases.