The American technologist Ray Kurzweil is also known as a 'futurist', and he has a certain talent for predicting technological trends. Twenty years ago, for example, Kurzweil predicted that, sometime ...

Tree-ring researchers at the University of Arizona have helped date what they called the oldest tree in Europe — a 1,075-year-old Bosnian pine growing in the mountains of Greece. To be precise, and to ...