Infographics – Futurism

Our space probes have reached nearly every corner of the Solar Systemso our restless species sets its sights on remoter shores. The recent discovery of a potentially habitable planet around our nearest stellar neighbor has us wondering: what else is out there? Here's a look at the most intriguing targets in the Solar Neighborhood.

It's been said that to apply one's imagination to the possibilities of the future is a valuable spiritual exercise. We heartily agreeand what could be more spiritually gratifying than to imagine the future possibilities of human evolution? Come along as we take a journey into the strange and unfamiliar country of our species' evolutionary future.

There's a new space race, a multilateral contest between many nations to conquer the high frontier. It's the sort of competition that avails the entire species, and as it accelerates with newer entrants we all inch a little closer to the stars. Here's a look at the past, present, and future projects of the world's top space agencies.

Our homes are getting "smarter" every day. They have smart security systems, smart lighting, smart bedshell, even the toilets are smart. And don't get us started on the heuristic thermostats and smartwatch-controlled cars. The home of the future is here today, so come along with us for a tour of the futuristic House of 2016.

An entire country powered by nothing but renewable sources of energy. Sounds impossible? In 2015, Costa Rica did just thatrunning fossil-free for 299 days. By 2021, this Central American republic hopes to be fully carbon neutral. Here's a breakdown of how Costa Rica is pioneering country-wide environmental sustainability.

Deep sea exploration isn't just for marine biologists anymore. Saturn's moon Titan is covered in seas of liquid hydrocarbons, and Europa and Enceladus likely harbor immense subglacial oceans. Here's a look at some of the space submarine concepts devised by NASA and others to explore our Solar System's alien seas.

It may be NASA's most ambitious deep space mission yet: rendezvous with a potentially Earth-impacting asteroid, map its features and orbital parameters, and snag a piece of its surface in a dangerous "touch-and-go" maneuver. We've got the entire OSIRIS-REx mission spelled out for you in this handy infographic.

Gigantic tsunamis, deadly bolides, seismic shocks, raging firestorms and a nuclear winterthese were just a few of the headaches the dinosaurs had to experience about 66 million years ago. We've broken down some of the signal events of that fateful day that cleared the Earth for the Rise of the Mammals.

In the U.S. alone, the incidence of children swallowing dangerous "button batteries" is on the rise. But a new technology involving ingestible "pill robots" may be the solution to these hazardssomeday, just popping a robot-packed pill could be the answer to the accidental ingestion of deadly foreign objects.

Giant cephalopods. Ancient sharks. Fang-filled maws, fossil species, and missing links. The deep ocean is an alien world within a worldand we've barely scratched its surface. Come along as we descend into the abyss, and discover some of its strangest denizens.

In China, they have a new motto for defeating traffic congestion: rise above it. And they mean that quite literally. Here's a look at the car-swallowing, traffic jam-defeating "Transit Elevated Bus"the next evolution in urban public transportation.

They tug, transit, eclipse, reflect, and microlense. Some shine faintly in the infrared. The bottom line is: exoplanets are hard to find. But astronomers have developed some pretty clever techniques for detecting these elusive worldsand we've put together this infographic to show you how it's done.

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Infographics - Futurism