Future Tense

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is opening-up its storeroom, turning the back end... more

A series of massive underground tombs for nuclear waste are currently under construction. ... more

Terms like "Gen Z", "Boomer" and "Millennial" are popular, but they have no basis in scien... more

Why does Utopian thinking get such a bad rap? It’s often derided as delusional and dangero... more

Privatising public services like trains, hospitals or prisons — is a proven vote loser. Bu... more

Authoritarians rule through fear. We can clearly see that from China to the Middle East to... more

Algorithmic feeds are meant to personalise our online experiences, but increasingly they'r... more

In our uber-connected world, the development and management of really anything is becoming... more

Nostalgia triggers our emotions and that in turn makes us vulnerable to manipulation. We s... more

Most people want to eat better. And many of us have embraced the trend toward "natural" fo... more

Methane levels are going up — not down, despite decades spent trying to reduce emissions f... more

The design of your city contributes to how much rain you get. Researchers have found a 'we... more

Military spending around the world has reached a new peak, and it's still going up. All ey... more

Sometimes, despite the hype, despite extensive funding, and despite clever and ingenious t... more

The UN General Assembly has passed a Declaration on Future Generations. It’s designed to e... more

Robot vacuum cleaners are so innocuous, many people treat them almost like pets. But they'... more

The heating climate is now recognised as a threat to our inner world – to brain health and... more

Rana Sylvatica is an unassuming wood frog with an extraordinary gift. In the depths of win... more

The demand for sex tech is booming. That is, toys and apps that can be used for pleasure, ... more

It was known as Wolf Warrior diplomacy – a brand of Chinese foreign ministry posturing tha... more

Gone are the grandiose infrastructure projects, replaced by an emphasis on smaller develop... more

2024 has been an eventful year for democracies around the world. More than 80 countries, c... more

Could the realities of an aging population and a declining birth rate soon make our obsess... more

Chat GPT pioneer, Sam Altman, reckons democratic countries will need to re-write their soc... more