What if we lived in a world where gender was more like hair color — something you could change at will, and that had little bearing on what other people…

When it comes to climate change, there are a lot of researchers already thinking about how to equip crops and food animals with genes to help them withstand heat and…

In 2006, scientists described the world’s first invisibility cloak. But there was a catch. It only worked in two dimensions, and on microwaves. But to what if scientists and engineers…

Humans spend a lot of time and energy wondering if there’s anybody else out there. But what if we got unequivocal evidence that there was? In this week’s future, a…

When you were a kid and stole your friends’ toys, your parent probably asked you this angry hypothetical: “How do you think that made them feel?” But what if you…

What would happen if we rounded up all the critically endangered animals and plants and put them in armored zoos?

What does the world look like when everybody with a smart phone also has a drone?

What if “life in prison” could mean 100 or 200 or 400 years? Does that change the way that sentences are dolled out? What happens when a person gets out…

If the Earth, somehow, stopped rotating around the sun, it would have exactly 64 1/2 days before it crashed into the fireball at the center of our solar system. Here’s…

Your face is one of your most valuable possessions. But what happens when facial recognition is so good that any company can grab an image of your face while you’re…