Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil explains why humans and computers will become indistinguishable in the next two decades.

How will the future view us? Tom Chatfield asked some of the world’s best minds, and discovered that we will be seen as barbaric in ways we may not even realise

Why the coming years will witness exciting new discoveries about our brains – from creating better tools to probe the mind deeper to creating smart nanobots.

Why a stop-motion film whose cast was made up of a few thousand atoms may transform the way we use computers.

Getting immunised against life-threatening diseases often means being pricked with a needle. An invention firing vaccines into the skin could put an end to it.

The idea of light, thin speakers is almost 100 years old, but now thanks to nanotechnology scientists think it might finally be possible.

Rockets are an expensive way of taking people to the final frontier, so James May finds out whether the concept of an elevator could ever get off the ground.

Scientists have figured out how to trap DNA in shells, which could bring the idea of DNA as the ultimate data-storage medium a step closer to reality.