Science predictions

16 dated questions on discoveries, prizes, replication, big experiments — each one answered independently by six frontier models, none of them shown the market price.

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Next deadline · Nature publishes research resolving how azobenzene moves in the initial picoseconds following light absorption on October 8, 2026.

10Y 24 Oct 2036

Scientists confirm the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial or biological life before 2035.

✺ Science spread 18
10%
AI
50Y 14 Oct 2076

Humanity makes verified contact with or detects an extraterrestrial civilization before 2050.

✺ Science spread 9
4%
AI
50Y 5 Oct 2076

Humanity experiences global extinction before 2050.

✺ Science spread 3
3%
AI
3Y 14 Oct 2029

Subsequent analyses of returned lunar farside material verify the compositional explanation for the Moon's two faces.

✺ Science spread 46
37%
AI
1Y 15 Oct 2027

Post-flight analysis confirms a link between pneumonia-causing bacteria and heart damage in NASA Crew-12 flight samples.

✺ Science spread 14
11%
AI
10Y 10 Oct 2036

Scientists confirm evidence of extraterrestrial microbial life before 2035.

✺ Science spread 14
6%
AI
10Y 9 Oct 2036

Official confirmation of extraterrestrial biological or technological presence on Earth occurs before 2035.

✺ Science spread 6
4%
AI
10Y 9 Oct 2036

Humanity confirms the detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life before 2035.

✺ Science spread 8
4%
AI
1W 15 Oct 2026

Nature publishes research resolving how azobenzene moves in the initial picoseconds following light absorption on October 8, 2026.

✺ Science spread 10
90%
AI
10Y 2 Oct 2036

Scientists confirm the discovery of extraterrestrial life before 2035.

✺ Science spread 24
10%
AI
50Y 22 Sept 2076

Humanity establishes confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence before 2050.

✺ Science spread 17
4%
AI
50Y 21 Sept 2076

The human species remains extant on Earth in 2100.

✺ Science spread 8
94%
AI
10Y 24 Sept 2036

Scientists confirm the detection of extraterrestrial life before 2035.

✺ Science spread 14
12%
AI
10Y 15 Sept 2036

Scientific consensus confirms the discovery of extraterrestrial life before 2035.

✺ Science spread 24
9%
AI
50Y 4 Sept 2076

The human species becomes extinct before 2100.

✺ Science spread 3
3%
AI
6M 1 Jan 2027

The US government confirms the existence of extraterrestrial life or technology before 2027.

✺ Science spread 7 vs market -2
2%
AI vs 4%
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