Futurism
The future is closer than you think. Owner: @CaptainJamesCook
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Futurism has 7,138 subscribers. A typical post is seen by about 125 people within a day, an engagement rate of 1.8%.
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Average views at each age, posts of the last 30 days.
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When it posts
Times in UTC. 18 posts in 90 days.
Recent posts
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🤯 A wheeled robot dog just landed a 720° flip GENISOM AI's L2-W is a four-legged robot that rolls on wheels, and the company calls this the first 720° flip by a wheeled quadruped. The clip also shows it keeping its balance under strong pushes and copying humanoid motions on four wheels. The footage is real, not AI-generated, the poster says. @futurism 🧬
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🚀 Twin Mars probes slingshot past Earth at over 10 km/s and set course for Mars Blue and Gold, the two spacecraft of NASA's ESCAPADE mission, each fired their main engine for 9.5 minutes during a powered Earth gravity assist. That burn put both on a trans-Mars injection. Rocket Lab designed and built the pair. They passed Earth at more than 10 kilometers per second and are now in interplanetary cruise. Arrival is due in September 2027, when they start studying the Martian atmosphere. @futurism 🧬
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⚡ A graphene harvester pulls power from the magnetic field around ordinary wires Researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Michigan built a graphene device that makes electricity from the changing magnetic fields around ordinary AC wiring. A graphene inductor with a steel core picks up the 60 Hz field, and a voltage multiplier turns the tiny signal into DC. The energy goes into three capacitors instead of a battery and runs a custom temperature sensor that uses roughly 30 million times less power than a single AirPod. If the power goes out, the stored charge could keep the sensor running for at least 24 hours, possibly up to a week. It needs strong magnetic fields n...
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😮 Xinhua now has humanoid robot news anchors, designed with help from Zhang Yimou UBTECH Robotics and Xinhua News Agency launched what they call the world's first bionic humanoid robot news anchors at the 7th World Media Summit in Beijing. The anchors are connected to Xinhua Yudian, Xinhua's current-affairs information intelligent agent, and are tailor-made for news communication. Film director Zhang Yimou served as lead character designer. UBTECH Robotics @futurism 🧬
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🤯 A Caltech robot built part of an antenna in orbit on its own A Caltech robot funded by DARPA has assembled a truss section in orbit. The researchers describe it as the first autonomous construction of a structure in space. The ASTRA builder was meant to put together a 1.4-meter reflector antenna from composite tubes, aluminum joints and reflective film. Two truss sections went up pre-assembled, and the robot built the third from individual components. Engineers on the ground could reach it only during a few 15-minute windows a day. They checked photos and tested solutions on a duplicate model before sending commands. The demo was funded under DARPA's NOM4D program, which envisions shi...
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📈 Gene therapy restored hearing in 90% of 42 people born deaf Fudan EENT Hospital's otology center published 2.5-year results in Nature for a gene therapy for DFNB9, deafness caused by OTOF mutations, a severe-to-profound hearing loss present from birth. The therapy splits the gene across two AAV vectors to get past the cargo limit of a single one. It was given to 42 patients at 8 hospitals, aged 9 months to 32 years. Their ABR hearing threshold dropped from above 97 dB nHL to 42 dB nHL, and 90% recovered hearing. In children aged 0.5 to 3, it worked in every case. Per the hospital's figures, 75% can now hold a phone conversation without lip-reading and 43% hear whispers. Two of three ad...
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🧐 A gene therapy let a drug quiet the seizure zones of the human brain For the first time, researchers inserted receptors into the human brain that let a drug control how active neurons are, Science reports. The gene therapy went to three people with drug-resistant epilepsy. It was designed to dampen activity in the seizure-generating zones of their hippocampus. The team running the clinical trial reported no major side effects, and the therapy appeared to reduce how often seizures happened. Three patients is a very small group, so this is an early result. @futurism 🧬
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😎 A pilot lifted off in a 3D-printed jet suit at NASA's tech expo A pilot flew Gravity Industries' wearable jet suit at NASA's aerospace technology expo, rising straight up on micro turbines mounted on his arms and back. The suit is built with 3D-printed polymer, aluminum and titanium. The turbines on the arms and back are what give it vertical flight. @futurism 🧬
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👽 A young imperial eagle is walking again on a 3D-printed leg After a serious injury in Greece in 2025, the eastern imperial eagle was fitted with a prosthetic limb made on a 3D printer. She is relearning to walk. She cannot go back to the wild: the artificial leg has no talons, so she cannot catch prey. Keepers say she may join a captive breeding programme instead. Wildlife prosthetics used to be one-off metal braces. Printed parts are cheap enough to reshape as the bird grows. Report @futurism 🧬
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⚡ Joby's electric air taxi flew Florida's Aerial Highway and a real airport vertiport Across a 12-day Florida campaign the company logged 362 miles over 14 flights. It says the aircraft became the first eVTOL to use the purpose-built vertiport at Orlando International Airport (MCO) and flew the state's Aerial Highway Network. Back in California, SN101, the FAA-conforming aircraft for Type Inspection Authorization, has expanded its envelope to full transition flight as Joby prepares for FAA pilots to fly it. Commercial air-taxi service still needs certification. The Florida miles are the public rehearsal. Joby Aviation @futurism 🧬
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🚀 Blue Origin has announced two major breakthroughs in rocket technology and space launch capabilities. 1. Northstar: A powerful new rocket engine producing 715,000 pounds of thrust, 12% more than the BE-4, while being 30% lighter and using 50% fewer parts. Over 65% of the engine is 3D printed, and assembly takes less than a day. 2. New Glenn GS3: A new third stage that will dramatically expand New Glenn's capabilities, allowing it to deliver up to 14 metric tons directly to geostationary orbit or 20 metric tons toward the Moon, while also enabling deep space missions. @futurism 🧬
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⚡️Scientists have developed a toothbrush that creates electricity while you brush your teeth! Researchers have developed a new toothbrush with special bristles that generate electricity whenever they bend during brushing. The tiny electrical charges trigger chemical reactions that produce molecules capable of damaging harmful bacteria. This could help fight the bacteria responsible for tooth decay and gum disease. In a study involving 109 adults, people using the new toothbrush experienced approximately 40% reductions in plaque buildup, gum inflammation and bleeding, compared with around 15% among those using conventional toothbrushes. Even more fascinating, the technology appeared to r...
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⚠️Scientists are freezing tumors with ice without open surgery. At Liverpool Hospital, specialists are using advanced MRI-guided cryoablation to freeze and destroy tumors. A tiny needle delivers extremely cold gas directly into the tumor, creating a ball of ice that kills the targeted cells. Meanwhile, MRI scans allow doctors to watch the freezing process in real time and carefully protect nearby healthy tissues. The results are already giving patients hope. One 64-year-old grandmother, Josephine Cordina, had been suffering from severe back pain caused by a small spinal tumor. After the procedure, she reported that her pain had disappeared by the following day. The technology can also hel...
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SpaceX plans to launch its first StarMind AI computing satellites in Q3 2027, with each spacecraft expected to generate over 250 kW of solar power. Elon Musk says this is about 20% more than the International Space Station, highlighting the enormous solar power capacity planned for these spacecraft. @futurism 🧬
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Prime Bot just announced a major milestone: 10,000 AI robots rolling off the production line. @futurism 🧬
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👽 A young imperial eagle is walking again on a 3D-printed leg After a serious injury in Greece in 2025, the eastern imperial eagle was fitted with a prosthetic limb made on a 3D printer. She is relearning to walk. She cannot go back to the wild: the artificial leg has no talons, so she cannot catch prey. Keepers say she may join a captive breeding programme instead. Wildlife prosthetics used to be one-off metal braces. Printed parts are cheap enough to reshape as the bird grows. Report @futurism 🧬
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🧐 One CRISPR infusion cut triglycerides 63% in 30 days CRISPR Therapeutics presented Phase 1b data for CTX310, an in-vivo Cas9 edit that knocks down ANGPTL3 in the liver, at the American Heart Association meeting. Ten people with severe hypertriglyceridemia (median baseline TG above 1,000 mg/dL) got a single IV dose. At day 30: mean ANGPTL3 down 65%, triglycerides down 63%, non-HDL-C down 51%. No treatment-related serious adverse events and no clinically relevant liver-enzyme spikes as of the cutoff. The FDA has already granted RMAT designations for CTX310 in severe high triglycerides and in elevated LDL cholesterol. Larger trials are still ahead. CRISPR Therapeutics @futurism 🧬
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⚡ Joby's electric air taxi flew Florida's Aerial Highway and a real airport vertiport Across a 12-day Florida campaign the company logged 362 miles over 14 flights. It says the aircraft became the first eVTOL to use the purpose-built vertiport at Orlando International Airport (MCO) and flew the state's Aerial Highway Network. Back in California, SN101, the FAA-conforming aircraft for Type Inspection Authorization, has expanded its envelope to full transition flight as Joby prepares for FAA pilots to fly it. Commercial air-taxi service still needs certification. The Florida miles are the public rehearsal. Joby Aviation @futurism 🧬
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⚡ Boston Dynamics bolted scooter wheels onto Atlas just to stress-test its motors The wheeled Atlas is not a product. It is a research testbed. A single custom adapter mounts an off-the-shelf scooter rim on each ankle actuator, and that is the only new hardware part. In software each wheel is modeled as an ankle that can spin forever. A reinforcement-learning whole-body controller, trained in simulation, transferred to the real robot and learned to roll, drift, side-dash, and even land a 360 jump on the first try. The point was continuous high torque and high speed that walking only delivers in short bursts. What they learned is going back into the regular, legged Atlas. Boston Dynamics...
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🚀 Relativity's Terran R will loft Impulse landers toward NASA's Moon Base Impulse Space won two task orders for NASA's Moon Base program. On one of them Relativity's next-generation Terran R carries Impulse's Helios kick stage and lunar lander into orbit, then Impulse hauls NASA payloads the rest of the way into cislunar space. Missions are slated to begin in 2028. After the orbital work, the lander is planned to run a descent profile that tests upsized cargo delivery to the lunar surface. Tom Mueller, Impulse's founder: after more than 30 years in rocketry, this is the first time he is sending hardware to the Moon. Impulse announcement @futurism 🧬
Questions about Futurism
How many subscribers does Futurism have?
Futurism (@futurism) has 7,138 subscribers as of November 12, 2026.
How many people see a post on Futurism?
A typical post gets about 130 views within 24 hours, roughly 2% of its subscribers (the ERR).
What is Futurism about?
It is listed in Technology, and posts mostly in English. The channel describes itself as: “The future is closer than you think. Owner: @CaptainJamesCook”
Where does Futurism rank?
By subscribers it is #99 in Technology, #2,611 among English channels, #3,054 worldwide.
Does Futurism post ads?
None of its 18 posts in the last 30 days carried an ad label such as #ad or Sponsored. Unlabelled promotions can’t be detected.
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