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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 13h

In his Gulliver, Swift foresaw ChatGPT 300 years ago, and yesterday's future wears a powdered wig this time: a wooden machine with 40 cranks promised books to anyone, no study required. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/nel-su… #AI

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 16h

A Canadian start-up lays wood and coconut mats over Arctic permafrost: the covered edge held, the bare one lost 5 metres. One site, one summer. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/perche… #futuroprossimo #permafrost

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 19h

In the US, a microphone on soybean stems spies on parasites so they can be put down: it listens for days to whatever burrows inside, and the plant stays whole. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/negli-… #futuroprossimo #agriculture

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 22h

At Rome's Gemelli, a woman is the first in the world to get a radioactive glue in an inoperable pancreatic tumor: for now it's 1 patient, but the test has begun. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/tumore… #futuroprossimo #oncology

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two-million-year-old Homo erectus remains from a South African cave mean the story needs rewriting, since the firm evidence from East Africa stops at 1.6 million years. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/homo-e… #HumanEvolution

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let's clear it up: Germany's renewables are at 58.8%, but that counts net production. On gross consumption, the yardstick for legal targets, it's about 54%. Power isn't short, but wholesale prices rose. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/german… #energy

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HAARP gets blamed for every earthquake, but when it beamed a radio signal at a 150-metre asteroid in 2022, the echo was never confirmed, not even by the researchers who ran the test. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/proget… #HAARP

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I imagined three futures in which the war between Israel and Palestine is truly over, starting from a 2063 history book where a kid yawns through the October 7th page. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/7-otto… #MiddleEast

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rosalind Franklin understood the DNA helix before Watson and Crick: her 2 May 1952 notebook already holds the numbers their model used less than a year later. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/rosali… #RosalindFranklin #DNA

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Kenya, a solar ambulance built by students from Eindhoven has passed its field test: it drove more than 800 km and produced more energy than it used. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/kenya-… #futuroprossimo #solarenergy

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In Utah an app called Nolla Derm prescribes acne creams before any doctor looks at the case, with human review afterwards: the first company in the US (maybe the world) to do it. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/nolla-… #AI #health

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why do people want the guy who opposes death dead? When Bryan Johnson announced an illness, the web cheered, and psychology says he shakes the stories we tell about death. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/perche… #futuroprossimo #longevity

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

High blood pressure may trace back to a few neurons that control breathing: in rats, switching them on pushes pressure up, and switching them off brings it back to normal. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/pressi… #bloodpressure #health

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A DNA computer of 100 bits has come out of Ireland, and it fits inside a drop of water: billions of molecules settle into their most stable arrangement and that arrangement is the answer. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/dallir… #DNA

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One can of zero-sugar soda with erythritol can raise the sweetener in your blood 1,000-fold for 2 or 3 days, making platelets more likely to clump, though causation is unproven. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/eritri… #health

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump just launched the Super Intelligence Force, a name that promises a lot. It has nothing to do with the superintelligence researchers talk about, though. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/la-sup… #futuroprossimo #AI

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A molecule linked to pomegranate improved heart relaxation by up to 80% in mice. Gut bacteria make it from compounds in the fruit, and not everyone has enough. Human trials are 7+ years away. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/una-mo… #hearthealth

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 5,000-year-old tomb at Abydos, with 41 courtiers buried to serve whoever lay inside. For a century scholars called her a king's mother. Her seals suggest she ruled: Meretneith. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/un-far…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lab technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute has died. Moscow says pneumonia of unknown origin, others a broken test tube. What is confirmed, and what is only reported? en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/peste-… #publichealth #futuroprossimo

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Turkish caravan 2.50 meters long and 450 kg empty hides a double bed and a real shower, and costs about 4,300 euros. Where they found room for the shower in a box that small is the curious part. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/guney-… #caravan

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In August, electric cars outsold gasoline and diesel combined in Europe: 243,207 against 202,931. A Chinese hatchback helped, and in Germany it can cost less than a VW Polo. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/le-ele… #electriccars

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The US is bringing an unmanned missile launcher to a Japanese island 110 km from Taiwan. Its range overshoots that distance by 75 km, and Chinese troops just drilled with drone swarms in Russia. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/droni-…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 2005 MIT promised a $100 laptop for every poor child. A few million got built, at nearly double the price. In Uruguay, the success story, over a quarter ended up broken. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/olpc-c… #technology

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Japanese carrier switched on a phone cell 16 km up, hanging from a crewless airship. Covering Japan this way takes 20-plus airships, though, and Google's Loon gave up after 9 years. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/giappo… #tech

Dirigibile stratosferico Sceye in volo sopra una pista nel New Mexico

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Researchers 3D-printed a cement slab that doubles as a supercapacitor: three wired together lit a row of LEDs. It carries weight like ordinary concrete, but around -18 °C it starts to fade. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/stampa… #energy

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I lined up the facts and the rumours on mafias and AI. A cloned voice moved 95 million euros out of an Italian bank, yet the clan files I read never mention AI. Prove me wrong. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/mafie-… #AI

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Toulouse, Boisurel and Exora want to cool buildings with the sunlight that heats them. Rooftop collectors power an absorption module, free of fluorinated gases. Prototype test: October. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/il-sol…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Robotaxis have no driver, and some passengers treat the back seat like a hotel room with no reception. A workshop in Sweden wants transparent seats. The cameras never blinked. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/robota… #robotaxi

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lab compound called 991 made a yeast and two tiny animals live over 25% longer. Raise the dose, though, and life got shorter instead. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/10/un-far… #longevity

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A startup wants to sell sunlight at night with orbital mirrors. It tells astronomers the beam is as faint as moonlight, but tells customers it powers solar panels. Both can not be true. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/specch… #space

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Toyota built a wheelchair that climbs stairs instead of rolling. Called walk me, it walks on four robotic legs, no ramps needed. Still a concept, but the direction is clear. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/toyota… #robotics

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Von der Leyen has offered Canada a spot as the EU's first associate member. That status doesn't exist in the treaties yet, and full membership stays close to impossible for geographic reasons. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/canada…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Germany is reviving a Cold War bunker beneath a hospital, built for two thousand people. Officials expect up to a thousand wounded a day if Russia attacks NATO en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/german… #Germany #NATO

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Researchers grew a human brain organoid and implanted it into a live mouse's cortex. It wasn't rejected: it wired into the circuits and responds when whiskers are touched. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/hanno-… #neuroscience

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A wristband that hears whispers and understands 120 languages: Persona AI tries again with 5 million euros, preorders from 179 dollars. Humane promised the same with 200 million, and its Pin now keeps a drawer. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/person…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Six students at Politecnico di Milano built Orpheus: a smart sock turning music into foot vibrations, helping Parkinson's patients beat sudden freezing of gait. Won Italy's James Dyson Award. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/sei-st…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

SpaceX sets the date: Starship tries true orbit next week. Energy jump is tiny. Coming home now depends on engines relighting in vacuum, right on time. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/spacex… #space

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A meta-analysis of 45 studies links air pollution to suicide risk. Correlation, not proven cause, researchers say. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/un-nuo… #futuroprossimo

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Athens is planting 30,000 trees on the runways of its old international airport, closed since 2001. It's becoming Europe's second-largest coastal urban park, designed to cool the air by up to 4°C. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/atene-…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Pentagon just lifted penalties for sharing UFO information with federal program PURSUE. A decades-old excuse for silence is gone. Nothing confirmed yet, though. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/pentag… #ufo #disclosure

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Pleiades aren't seven stars: they're the core of a 3,091-star family, scattered across nearly 2,000 light-years. TESS and Gaia traced these "lost sisters," drifted apart 100 million years ago. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/le-ple…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Executives at Japan's Chubu Electric resigned after a probe found years of falsified seismic data at the Hamaoka nuclear plant, above one of the Pacific's most feared faults. en.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/chubu-…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Executives at Japan's Chubu Electric resigned after a probe found years of falsified seismic data at the Hamaoka nuclear plant, above one of the Pacific's most feared faults. www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/chubu…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A 3-year-old boy with liver cancer resistant to chemotherapy is now cancer-free after two doses of an experimental cell therapy, 12 months on. Published in NEJM. www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/cancr… #health #medicine

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Tokyo startup builds homes with ceiling-mounted robotic arms instead of humanoid robots. First test: folded a towel perfectly, got stuck on a T-shirt. Three homes already sold, up to $2.7M each. www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/robot…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Japanese polymer dissolves in damp soil and feeds the crops growing in it, matching yields in tests on spinach-like greens. The catch: it exists in lab-scale grams, not field tons. www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/in-gi…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Marriage keeps shrinking to a smaller, more deliberate audience. China's weddings halved in eleven years, Italy's dropped 5.9% last year alone. Where the state lowers the cost of entry, like Hungary, people marry again: those who do today truly mean it.

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A billion tons of water sounds like plenty, until you do the math: it sustains a million lunar people for a century, tops. Power is abundant up there. Water is not. #space www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/nient…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Unitree G1 costs 15,900 dollars and eventually breaks down, hip actuator dead. Japan launched the world's first robot ambulance: technicians fix the humanoid on site, no shipping back. www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/in-gi…

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Futuro Prossimo @futuroprossimo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Brake dust pollutes more than exhaust these days. German firm Schaeffler built a sealed brake bathed in oil, trapping wear particles instead of scattering them into the air. www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/09/parti…

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