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If you’ve ever struggled to imagine how life will change over the next century thanks to technology, take comfort — you’re not alone. Over 100 year ago, some French artists tried to do the same thing. 
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Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have uncovered the brain processes by which humans learn to understand the values of others and use this information to predict their decision-making behavior. Using fMRI scans, researchers found that "humans simulate the decisions of other people using two brain signals encoded in the prefrontal cortex, an area responsible for higher cognition."
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Religion is often thought of as psychological defense against bad behavior, but researchers have recently found that the effect of religion on pro-social behaviors may actually be driven by the belief in hell and supernatural punishment rather than faith in heaven and spiritual benevolence.
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It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show that a suspect is a smoker, takes drugs, or has handled explosives, among other things. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Pompi Hazarika and David Russell describe the noteworthy progress that has recently been made.
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Eight studies in this paper found that people with higher trust in their feelings were more likely to correctly predict the final outcome than those with lower trust in their feelings. The researchers call this phenomenon the emotional oracle effect.
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Abstract: Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming sensory inputs with top-down expectations or predictions. This is achieved using a hierarchical generative model that aims to minimize prediction error within a bidirectional cascade of cortical processing. Such accounts offer a unifying model of perception and action, illuminate the functional role of attention, and may neatly capture the special contribution of cortical processing to adaptive success.
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The world can deliver sudden and nasty shocks. Economies can crash, fisheries can collapse, and climates can pass tipping points.
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Sadilek and colleagues turn their target's social network into a predictive model called a dynamic Bayesian network. At each point in time, the nodes in the target person's network consist of their friends' locations, day of the week and the time, and information from these nodes determines the target's most likely location. Sadilek can also feed in any existing information about the person's whereabouts to help improve the model's accuracy.
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Most of today's continents (left) will migrate toward the North Pole and collide to form a new landmass called Amasia (right).
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A detailed hour long presentation by Peter Diamandis, author of Abundance has become available online. For those of us who have not yet had a chance to attend Singularity University, it offers a glimpse at the content and ideas that students receive.
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New research has shown how a certain region of the brain helps predict trends and how it sees pattern in random things.
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Kristian Hammond, Narrative Science's chief technology officer, has made some bold predictions about the future of journalism. Within 15 years, he says, 90% of journalism will be written by machines; within five years, a robot will have won a Pulitzer Prize. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade.
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The FBI wants to mine social media for data it hopes can predict future terrorist attacks. But that's not the only way to use Facebook and Twitter as crystal balls
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The era of smog-filled skies will be over, because fewer of us will be driving cars. There will no longer be the use for cars and roads as we’ll be piloting environmentally friendly personal vehicles between cities and under the seas. Via Panayiotis
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Your top 20 predictions on what the world will be like in 100 years.
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The French vision of a vacuum cleaner?