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MIT Technology Review

The Download: how AI can improve a city, and inside OpenAI’s empire

16/06/2025 08:10

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI can help make cities work better In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are…

MIT Technology Review

How AI can help make cities work better for residents

16/06/2025 06:00

In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and…

Technology | The Guardian

Liverpool is crypto capital of UK, survey finds

16/06/2025 02:00

Research reveals 13% of residents regularly invest in cryptocurrency and check stocks, more than all other cities

The city’s most famous sons may have sung that money can’t buy you love, but that was before bitcoin existed.

Liverpool has emerged as the crypto capital of the UK, according to a study looking at the online habits of people across the country.

Technology | The Guardian

The big idea: should we embrace boredom?

15/06/2025 10:00

Smartphones offer instant stimulation, but do they silence a deeper message?

In 2014, a group of researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia asked people to sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. The only available diversion was a button that delivered a painful electric shock. Almost half of the participants pressed it. One man pressed the button 190 times – even though he, like everyone else in the study, had earlier indicated that he found the shock unpleasant enough that he would pay to avoid being shocked again. The study’s authors concluded that “people prefer doing to thinking”, even if the only thing available to do is painful – perhaps because, if left to their own devices, our minds tend to wander in unwanted directions.

Since the mass adoption of smartphones, most people have been walking around with the psychological equivalent of a shock button in their pocket: a device that can neutralise boredom in an instant, even if it’s not all that good for us. We often reach for our phones for something to do during moments of quiet or solitude, or to distract us late at night when anxious thoughts creep in. This isn’t always a bad thing – too much rumination is unhealthy – but it’s worth reflecting on the fact that avoiding unwanted mind-wandering is easier than it’s ever been, and that most people distract themselves in very similar, screen-based ways.

Technology | The Guardian

‘We’re being attacked all the time’: how UK banks stop hackers

15/06/2025 04:00

Devastating attacks at M&S, the Co-op and Harrods highlight risks as lenders say cybersecurity is biggest expense

It is every bank boss’s worst nightmare: a panicked phone call informs them a cyber-attack has crippled the IT system, rapidly unleashing chaos across the entire UK financial industry.

As household names in other industries, including Marks & Spencer, grapple with the fallout from such hacks, banking executives will be acutely aware that, for them, the stakes are even higher.

Technology | The Guardian

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI

15/06/2025 03:00

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.

Technology | The Guardian

‘Earn up to £800 a day’: job scammers using calls or texts to lure victims

15/06/2025 03:00

Fraudsters offer great pay for liking and sharing TikTok content – but then demand a fee to unlock higher earnings

Out of the blue you receive a call or a text offering you a job. It sounds great – it’s remote working and you could earn up to £800 a day. If you’re interested, you just need to contact the sender via the WhatsApp number provided.

The job is pretty easy: you are asked to like and share content – usually on TikTok.

Technology | The Guardian

Hey AI! Can ChatGPT help you to manage your money?

14/06/2025 03:00

We asked a chatbot some common finance questions – and then ran its responses past human experts

Artificial intelligence seems to have touched every part of our lives. But can it help us manage our money? We put some common personal finance questions to the free version of ChatGPT, one of the most well-known AI chatbots, and asked for its help.

Then we gave the answers to some – human – experts and asked them what they thought.

Technology | The Guardian

Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says

14/06/2025 02:00

Peter Kyle calls on employees and businesses to act now to get to grips with technology amid forecasts of job losses

Workers in the UK should turn their trepidation over AI into “exhilaration” by giving it a try or they risk being left behind by those who have, the technology secretary has said.

Peter Kyle called on employees and businesses to “act now” on getting to grips with the tech, with the generational gap in usage needing only two and a half hours of training to bridge.

The Economist - Science & technology

The world needs to understand the deep oceans better

13/06/2025 13:44

Otherwise it cannot protect them properly

The Economist - Science & technology

Is the “manopause” real?

13/06/2025 12:42

If it is, it is nothing like the menopause

Technology | The Guardian

What Elon Musk wore to the White House foreshadowed his downfall

13/06/2025 12:00

The sloppy sartorial style of political insiders, from Musk to Dominic Cummings, reveals who has the privilege to be scruffy – but it may also signal their undoing

In case you missed it, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have fallen out.

For some – and in particular anyone looking at the tech billionaire’s White House wardrobe – this will come as little surprise. Long before anyone hit send on those inflammatory tweets, or tensions spilled out over Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB), Musk’s political downfall was written in the stitching.

MIT Technology Review

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries

13/06/2025 10:09

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

Technology | The Guardian

MindsEye review – a dystopian future that plays like it’s from 2012

13/06/2025 08:25

PC (version tested), PlayStation 5, Xbox; Build a Rocket Boy/IOI Partners
A lot of work and ambition have gone into this strange, sometimes likable cover-shooter throwback

There’s a Sphere-alike in Redrock, MindsEye’s open-world version of Las Vegas. It’s pretty much a straight copy of the original: a huge soap bubble, half sunk into the desert floor, with its surface turned into a gigantic TV. Occasionally you’ll pull up near the Sphere while driving an electric vehicle made by Silva, the megacorp that controls this world. You’ll sometimes come to a stop just as an advert for an identical Silva EV plays out on the huge curved screen overhead. The doubling effect can be slightly vertigo-inducing.

At these moments, I truly get what MindsEye is trying to do. You’re stuck in the ultimate company town, where oligarchs and other crooks run everything, and there’s no hope of escaping the ecosystem they’ve built. MindsEye gets this all across through a chance encounter, and in a way that’s both light of touch and clever. The rest of the game tends towards the heavy-handed and silly, but it’s nice to glimpse a few instances where everything clicks.

MIT Technology Review

The Download: gambling with humanity’s future, and the FDA under Trump

13/06/2025 08:10

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals, but their grand visions for the next decade and beyond…

MIT Technology Review

Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future

13/06/2025 06:00

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” the famed computer scientist Alan Kay once said. Uttered more out of exasperation than as inspiration, his remark has nevertheless attained gospel-like status among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, in particular a handful of tech billionaires who fancy themselves the chief architects of humanity’s future. Sam…

MIT Technology Review

Here’s what food and drug regulation might look like under the Trump administration

13/06/2025 05:00

Earlier this week, two new leaders of the US Food and Drug Administration published a list of priorities for the agency. Both Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad are controversial figures in the science community. They were generally highly respected academics until the covid pandemic, when their contrarian opinions on masking, vaccines, and lockdowns turned many…

MIT Technology Review

Shoring up global supply chains with generative AI

12/06/2025 14:10

The outbreak of covid-19 laid bare the vulnerabilities of global, interconnected supply chains. National lockdowns triggered months-long manufacturing shutdowns. Mass disruption across international trade routes sparked widespread supply shortages. Costs spiralled. And wild fluctuations in demand rendered tried-and-tested inventory planning and forecasting tools useless. “It was the black swan event that nobody had accounted for,…

Technology | The Guardian

European journalists targeted with Paragon Solutions spyware, say researchers

12/06/2025 08:39

Citizen Lab says it found ‘digital fingerprints’ of military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted using against activists

The hacking mystery roiling the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government is deepening after researchers said they had found new evidence that two more journalists were targeted using the same military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted to using against activists.

A parliamentary committee overseeing intelligence confirmed earlier this month that Italy had used mercenary spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions against two Italian activists.

MIT Technology Review

The Download: AI agents’ autonomy, and sodium-based batteries

12/06/2025 08:10

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any action that can be…

Technology | The Guardian

Tell us your favourite video game of 2025 so far

12/06/2025 07:55

We would like to hear about the best new game you have played this year so far and why

The Guardian’s writers have compiled their favourite new games of the year so far – and we’d like to hear about yours, too.

Have you come across a new release that you can’t stop playing? Or one you’d recommend? Tell us your nomination and why you like it below.

MIT Technology Review

These new batteries are finding a niche

12/06/2025 06:00

Lithium-ion batteries have some emerging competition: Sodium-based alternatives are starting to make inroads. Sodium is more abundant on Earth than lithium, and batteries that use the material could be cheaper in the future. Building a new battery chemistry is difficult, mostly because lithium is so entrenched. But, as I’ve noted before, this new technology has…

MIT Technology Review

Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?

12/06/2025 06:00

On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time, nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the US stock market within 20 minutes—at the time, the fastest decline in history. Then, almost as suddenly, the market rebounded. After months of investigation, regulators attributed much of the responsibility for this “flash crash” to high-frequency trading algorithms, which…

The Economist - Science & technology

A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health

11/06/2025 12:21

Studies show these can help detect pre-eclampsia and predict preterm births

The Economist - Science & technology

How to stop swarms of drones? Blast them with microwaves

11/06/2025 12:20

America’s armed forces are already deploying the technology

Technology | The Guardian

Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek to be a world leader in the field, industry and science minister says

11/06/2025 11:00

Tim Ayres says the Albanese government will focus on legislation and regulation but country would benefit from moving quickly

Australia must “lean in hard” to the benefits of artificial intelligence or else risk ending up “on the end of somebody else’s supply chain”, according to the new industry and science minister, Tim Ayres, with the Labor government planning to further regulate the rapidly evolving technology.

Ayres, a former official with the manufacturing union, acknowledged Australians remained sceptical about AI and stressed that employers and employees needed to have discussions about how automation could affect workplaces.

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‘Addictive fear’: my goosebump-inducing first encounter with Resident Evil Requiem

11/06/2025 11:00

A gruesome monster munching through a luckless body was just one of the horrors I shuddered at in a brief snippet of the forthcoming Resident Evil 9. Be afraid – and excited

A surprise announcement at the end of the 6 June Summer Game Fest presentation revealed the ninth entry in the iconic Capcom survival horror series: Resident Evil Requiem, coming early next year.

Diehard fans of the series (which has spawned films, television shows and more) immediately began picking apart the trailer, which highlights protagonist Grace Ashcroft, the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft, featured in 2003’s Resident Evil Outbreak. Requiem appears to be set in Racoon City, the fictional location in the franchise that was famously nuked to try and stop the spread of the zombifying T-Virus.

Resident Evil Requiem is out on 27 February 2026 on Xbox, PlayStation 5, and PC.

Technology | The Guardian

Researchers create AI-based tool that restores age-damaged artworks in hours

11/06/2025 11:00

By slashing time and cost of restoration, technique could be used on paintings not valuable enough for traditional approach

The centuries can leave their mark on oil paintings as wear and tear and natural ageing produce cracks, discoloration and patches where pieces of pigment have flaked off.

Repairing the damage can take conservators years, so the effort is reserved for the most valuable works, but a fresh approach promises to transform the process by restoring aged artworks in hours.

Technology | The Guardian

Everything that happened at Summer Game Fest 2025, from marathon game sessions to military helicopters

11/06/2025 07:15

This year’s event showcased gaming’s evolving landscape, from blockbuster titles to standout indie projects

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As protests exploded in Los Angeles last weekend, elsewhere in the city, a coterie of games journalists and developers were gathered together to play new games at the industry’s annual summer showcase. This week’s issue is a dispatch from our correspondent Alyssa Mercante.

Summer Game Fest (SGF), the annual Los Angeles-based gaming festival/marketing marathon, was set up to compete with the once-massive E3. It’s taken a few years, but now it has replaced it. 2025’s event felt like a cogent reminder that the games industry has dramatically changed since the pandemic. Whereas E3 used to commandeer the city’s convention centre smack in the middle of downtown LA, SGF is off the beaten path, nestled among the reams of fabric in the Fashion District, adjacent to Skid Row. There are fewer game companies present, it’s not open to the public and there’s no cosplay, unless it’s for marketing purposes.

Technology | The Guardian

From Resident Evil to 007: the 15 best games at 2025’s Summer Game Fest

11/06/2025 05:00

There’s a lot to take in at the yearly live video event: from Paralives to Felt That: Boxing, Dosa Divas to Resident Evil Requiem, here are our favourites

The ninth mainstream instalment in the survival horror series returns us to the wreckage of Racoon City and promises a blend of cinematic action and psychological horror. FBI agent Grace Ashcroft appears to be the main character, but is anything in this series ever what it seems?

Technology | The Guardian

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge review: super thinness above all else

10/06/2025 02:00

Special featherweight, titanium edition of top Android has large screen but sacrifices battery and camera for design

Having been instrumental in the reduction of smartphones to metal and glass slabs devoid of distinguishing features, Samsung hopes that going thinner and lighter with a special Edge edition of its high-end Galaxy S25 Android will prove design innovation isn’t dead.

The S25 Edge is very thin at just 5.8mm thick – if you ignore the camera bump on the back – making it a full 1.5mm thinner than its similarly sized S25+ sibling and about the same thickness as a stack of seven credit cards. Its light 168g weight makes it feel even thinner than the numbers suggest and photos don’t do it justice.

The Economist - Science & technology

How much protein do you really need?

06/06/2025 11:08

Unless you are older or want bigger muscles, you’re probably getting enough

The Economist - Science & technology

How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls? An AI model can help

05/06/2025 08:46

Scientists are using it to estimate the age of ancient handwriting

The Economist - Science & technology

A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts

04/06/2025 12:32

More than 40 science missions would be cancelled if Donald Trump’s budget goes through

Technology | The Guardian

Surface Laptop 13in review: Microsoft’s cheaper, more compact Windows 11 machine

04/06/2025 02:00

Cut-down version of top Windows 11 AI notebook offers premium experience in smaller and less expensive package

Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is smaller and cheaper, managing to condense most of what is great about its larger siblings into a more compact frame without compromising too much on power.

The Surface Laptop 13in joins the current seventh-generation Laptop 13.8in and 15in that were launched in the summer last year. It sits at the bottom of the premium pile in price, costing from £899 (€1,099/$900/A$1,699), but above the Laptop Go 3, which is likely to be phased out.

Screen: 13in LCD 1920 x 1280 (178 PPI)

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (8 core)

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 256 or 512GB

Operating system: Windows 11 Home

Camera: 1080P front-facing

Connectivity: wifi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, USB-A, 2xUSB-C (3.2), headphones

Dimensions: 285.7 x 214.1 x 15.6mm

Weight: 1.2kg

The Economist - Science & technology

The Alzheimer’s drug pipeline is healthier than you might think

03/06/2025 10:43

It reflects a more nuanced understanding of the disease

The Economist - Science & technology

How much coffee is too much?

30/05/2025 13:03

Studies suggest moderate consumption is harmless. It may even be beneficial

The Economist - Science & technology

Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars next year are toast

28/05/2025 13:41

SpaceX’s Starship fails for a third time in a row

The Economist - Science & technology

The decoding of ancient Roman scrolls is speeding up

28/05/2025 13:39

More data, and a more powerful particle accelerator, should pay dividends

The Economist - Science & technology

Old oil paintings are suffering from chemical “acne”

28/05/2025 13:16

Conservators are scrambling to rescue them

The Economist - Science & technology

Snakes may have once faced a vicious enemy: the humble ant

28/05/2025 13:11

Scientists believe that could be why the slithering reptiles developed toxic tails

The Economist - Science & technology

Aron D’Souza, the brash brain behind the “doping Olympics”

23/05/2025 13:27

The president of the Enhanced Games wants to push forward human evolution

The Economist - Science & technology

Should men be screened for prostate cancer?

23/05/2025 13:20

The answer is less obvious than you might think

The Economist - Science & technology

A pro-doping sporting contest is coming to Las Vegas

21/05/2025 16:02

The Enhanced Games will set records and attract controversy

The Economist - Science & technology

How cuts to science funding will hurt ordinary Americans

21/05/2025 15:30

Federal agencies are struggling to predict the weather and monitor disease

The Economist - Science & technology

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain

21/05/2025 15:27

Other countries may benefit. Science will suffer

The Economist - Science & technology

Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminate

21/05/2025 15:24

It started as a crackdown on DEI. Now all types of research are being cancelled

The Economist - Science & technology

Contact sports can cause brain injuries. Should kids still play?

16/05/2025 14:02

Modifying rules and grouping players by size rather than age can limit the risks

The Economist - Science & technology

For the first time, a CRISPR drug treats a child’s unique mutation

15/05/2025 13:00

Scientists hope more children will benefit

The Economist - Science & technology

The race to build the fighter planes of the future

14/05/2025 13:59

They can hold more fuel, carry more weaponry and boast more computing power

The Economist - Science & technology

Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research

14/05/2025 13:49

It is supporting experiments to thicken sea ice and make clouds more reflective

The Economist - Science & technology

Are juice shots worth the price?

09/05/2025 12:37

Fresh fruit is probably a cheaper alternative

The Economist - Science & technology

Companies have plans to build robotic horses

07/05/2025 13:22

One diminutive design is aimed at children

The Economist - Science & technology

Compressed music might be harmful to the ears

07/05/2025 13:21

In guinea pigs it can weaken muscles important for hearing

The Economist - Science & technology

How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals

07/05/2025 13:20

China’s export restrictions may boost scientific innovation

The Economist - Science & technology

Dogs really do look and act just like their owners

07/05/2025 06:21

The resemblance increases over time

The Economist - Science & technology

Is your hay fever getting worse?

02/05/2025 13:04

Climate change could be to blame

Technology | The Guardian

Sky Glass gen 2 review: the smart streaming TV levels up

01/05/2025 02:00

Latest satellite-free Sky TV is ready for primetime with better picture, sound and much-improved service

The latest version of Sky’s Glass smart TV is faster and looks better than its predecessor and offers a level of all-in-one convenience that makes the satellite-free pay TV one of the best on the market.

Sky Glass gen 2 is a straight replacement for the original model from 2021, which introduced Sky’s TV-over-broadband service that ditched the need for a satellite dish. The new TV comes in three sizes and you can buy the smallest 43in version for a one-off payment of £699 or £14 a month spread over four years, after which you own it.

The Economist - Science & technology

A landmark study of gender medicine is caught in an ethics row

30/04/2025 13:22

Some say the trial is unethical. Others, that not doing it would be immoral

The Economist - Science & technology

Rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people

30/04/2025 13:19

Childhood exposure to a common gut bacterium could be responsible

The Economist - Science & technology

The great Iberian power cut need not spell disaster for renewables

30/04/2025 12:00

But there are lessons to be learned

The Economist - Science & technology

Can at-home brain stimulators make you feel better?

25/04/2025 12:21

For now, the evidence for neuromodulation products is slim

The Economist - Science & technology

Australia’s dingoes are becoming a distinct species

23/04/2025 11:55

Many will still be culled under false pretences

The Economist - Science & technology

Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant—and spreading

23/04/2025 11:52

New antifungals offer a glimmer of hope

The Economist - Science & technology

AI models can learn to conceal information from their users

23/04/2025 11:51

This makes it harder to ensure that they remain transparent

The Economist - Science & technology

The Carthaginians weren’t who you think they were

23/04/2025 11:18

New research shows just how diverse the ancient city of Dido was

The Economist - Science & technology

We’re hiring a Technical Lead for our AI Lab

23/04/2025 04:15

Join The Economist’s new AI initiative

The Economist - Science & technology

How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain

17/04/2025 08:17

Small rewards and a change of scenery can help

Technology | The Guardian

Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

17/04/2025 02:00

New iPad has laptop-level power, reliable battery life, great video call camera and a choice of screen sizes

Apple’s iPad Air continues to be the premium tablet to beat, with the latest version featuring a chip upgrade to keep it ahead of the pack.

The new iPad Air M3 costs from £599 (€699/$599/A$999) – the same as its predecessor – and comes in two sizes with either an 11in or 13in screen. It sits between the base-model £329 iPad A16 and the £999 iPad Pro M4, splitting the difference in price and features.

Screen: 11in or 13in Liquid Retina display (264ppi)

Processor: Apple M3 (9-core GPU)

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 128, 256, 512GB or 1TB

Operating system: iPadOS 18.4

Camera: 12MP rear, 12MP centre stage

Connectivity: Wifi 6E (5G optional eSim-only), Bluetooth 5.3, USB-C, Touch ID, Smart Connecter

Dimensions: 247.6 x 178.5 x 6.1mm or 280.6 x 214.9 x 6.1mm

Weight: 460g or 616g

The Economist - Science & technology

Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation

16/04/2025 09:20

There are worrying signs. But more thorough studies of their health effects are coming

The Economist - Science & technology

Scientists are getting to grips with ice

16/04/2025 09:20

Climate change is making water freeze in unexpected ways

The Economist - Science & technology

AI models could help negotiators secure peace deals

16/04/2025 09:20

Some are being developed to help end the war in Ukraine

Technology | The Guardian

Pixel 9a review: Google’s cut-price Android winner

15/04/2025 02:00

Class-leading camera, top-tier chip, very long battery life, AI and quality software dominate mid-range rivals

Google’s latest cut-price Pixel offers the best bang for your buck in Android phones and is arguably better in many areas than some models costing twice the price.

The Pixel 9a starts at the same £499 (€549/$499/A$849) as last year’s equally good value model. That makes it £300 or so less than Google’s regular Pixel 9 and places it up against mid-rangers such as Nothing’s Phone 3a Pro and Samsung’s Galaxy A56.

Screen: 6.3in 120Hz FHD+ OLED (422ppi)

Processor: Google Tensor G4

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 128 or 256GB

Operating system: Android 15

Camera: 48MP + 13MP ultrawide, 13MP selfie

Connectivity: 5G, Sim/eSim, wifi 6E, NFC, Bluetooth 5.3 and GNSS

Water resistance: IP68 (1m for 30 minutes)

Dimensions: 154.7 x 73.3 x 8.9mm

Weight: 185.9g

The Economist - Science & technology

Electric vehicles also cause air pollution

11/04/2025 13:50

Though fume-free, their brake pads and tyres disintegrate over time

The Economist - Science & technology

AI models are helping dirty industries go green

10/04/2025 08:53

Mining companies and steelmakers are feeling the benefits

The Economist - Science & technology

Could data centres ever be built in orbit?

09/04/2025 14:32

A startup called Starcloud has plans to do just that

The Economist - Science & technology

The tricky task of calculating AI’s energy use

09/04/2025 14:29

Making models less thirsty may not lessen their environmental impact

The Economist - Science & technology

AI models can help generate cleaner power

09/04/2025 14:23

Energy companies are using them to increase efficiency and spot problems

The Economist - Science & technology

Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”

02/04/2025 13:06

They plan sentences far in advance. They also bullshit themselves when reasoning out loud

The Economist - Science & technology

How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet

02/04/2025 13:05

This annual time shift has long-lasting effects on health

The Economist - Science & technology

Motors in the wheels take EVs further

02/04/2025 13:04

Simpler to build, lighter and extra range

The Economist - Science & technology

What does space miso taste like?

02/04/2025 13:04

It should make the diets of astronauts more interesting

The Economist - Science & technology

Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives

31/03/2025 15:44

A technique that may create a new field of medicine

The Economist - Science & technology

Is red meat unhealthy?

28/03/2025 14:06

Overdoing it could give you heart disease or cancer

The Economist - Science & technology

Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines

27/03/2025 11:46

The sound of their engines will not travel as far

The Economist - Science & technology

Can Musk put people on Mars?

27/03/2025 11:46

Whether successful or not, his attempt to do so will reshape America’s space programme

The Economist - Science & technology

How harmful are electronic cigarettes?

21/03/2025 13:25

The risks of vaping may be worth the benefits

The Economist - Science & technology

Why don’t seals drown?

20/03/2025 14:01

They can time their dives to match their blood oxygen

The Economist - Science & technology

Rumours on social media could cause sick people to feel worse

19/03/2025 13:27

They are powerful triggers of an inverse placebo effect

The Economist - Science & technology

Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?

19/03/2025 13:25

AI chatbots and critical thinking courses might help

Technology | The Guardian

Kindle Colorsoft review: Amazon’s new e-reader gets colour screen upgrade

19/03/2025 03:00

With launch problems fixed, first colour Kindle improves reading experience – but it is pricey and too small for comics

Amazon’s first Kindle with a colour screen had been a very long time coming and then suffered a rough landing last year, plagued with yellowing screen issues and shipping delays. But with those problems fixed, is a splash of colour the revolution the Kindle needs?

Amazon isn’t the first to use a colour e-ink screen in an e-reader, but it thinks its upgrades meaningfully improve on the tech used by others such as Boox and Kobo over the past four years by offering greater contrast and speed.

The Economist - Science & technology

Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?

17/03/2025 09:56

A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease

Technology | The Guardian

Nothing Phone 3a Pro review: funky mid-ranger with real zoom camera

17/03/2025 03:00

Transparent back, flashing LEDs, novel design, long battery life and huge triple camera help this Android stand out

London-based Nothing has brought one of the last things setting top-level phones apart from cheaper mid-range models down to a more affordable price: high-quality camera zoom.

Cameras have long been the battleground of the most expensive phones, each vying for better quality, longer reach and multiple lenses. While much of this costly progress has trickled down to cheaper models, optical zoom cameras are few and far between below the £600 mark.

Screen: 6.77in 120Hz FHD+ OLED (387ppi)

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

RAM: 12GB

Storage: 256GB

Operating system: Nothing OS 3.1 (Android 15)

Camera: 50MP main, 50MP 3x tele and 8MP ultrawide, 50MP selfie

Connectivity: 5G, eSIM, wifi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5.4 and GNSS

Water resistance: IP64 (spray resistant)

Dimensions: 163.5 x 77.5 x 8.4mm

Weight: 211g

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What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?

14/03/2025 14:32

Tooth-brushing reigns supreme. But fluoride in tap water is a good safety net

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Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off

12/03/2025 13:31

Two new reports highlight strengths as well as weaknesses

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The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine

12/03/2025 13:29

But toppling ASML will not be easy

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Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator

12/03/2025 13:27

High-speed electrons can etch nano-scale designs

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iPhone 16e review: Apple’s cheapest new phone

11/03/2025 03:00

Stripped back iPhone offers latest chips, AI and longer battery life, but with only a single camera on the back

Apple’s cheapest new smartphone is the iPhone 16e, which offers the basic modern iPhone experience including the latest chips and AI features but for a little less than its other models.

The iPhone 16e costs £599 (€699/$599/A$999) and is the spiritual successor to the iPhone SE line. Where the iPhone SE still had the old-school chunky design with home button, the 16e has the body of the iPhone 14 with the chips of the £799 iPhone 16.

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Is butter bad for you?

07/03/2025 13:19

A new study suggests olive oil may be a healthier alternative

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Two private companies reach the Moon within four days

07/03/2025 13:16

Though Firefly Aerospace has had better luck than Intuitive Machines

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Satellites are polluting the stratosphere

05/03/2025 12:38

And forthcoming mega-constellations will exacerbate the problem

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AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future

05/03/2025 12:34

Better batteries, cleaner bioplastics and more powerful semiconductors await

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Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths

04/03/2025 09:44

They are small and tuskless, but extremely fluffy

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Is posh moisturiser worth the money?

01/03/2025 05:13

Don’t break the bank

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How artificial intelligence can make board games better

26/02/2025 13:30

It can iron out glitches in the rules before they go on the market

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The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies

26/02/2025 13:29

Flexible drills, distributed power systems and, of course, artificial intelligence

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Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone

25/02/2025 07:25

The key is to fly very low indeed

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Do better shoes help you run faster?

21/02/2025 09:52

Yes, but the benefits won’t last

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Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything

19/02/2025 14:10

Plate tectonics could explain continental plateaus and mini mass extinctions

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How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science

19/02/2025 14:08

The consequences will be felt around the world

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New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia

19/02/2025 13:04

DNA analysis reveals shifting family patterns

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Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?

14/02/2025 09:52

What the early evidence suggests about the effect on students

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AI is being used to model football matches

12/02/2025 13:58

The mathematics of network analysis helps them follow the action

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A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic

12/02/2025 13:50

What could have generated the most energetic neutrino ever detected?

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How artificial intelligence is changing baseball

12/02/2025 13:49

Moneyball enters its AI era

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Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

12/02/2025 07:04

A $6m LLM isn’t cool. A $6 one is

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Does intermittent fasting work?

07/02/2025 11:57

It does for weight loss. Its other supposed benefits are debatable

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Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes

05/02/2025 12:54

Their tools are software, and a nose for trouble

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Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky

05/02/2025 12:50

The right sounds can also disable their cameras

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Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum

05/02/2025 12:48

Drone operators and jammers are in a high-tech arms race

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Are ice baths good for you?

31/01/2025 10:56

They won’t hurt. Actually they might, a bit

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Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper

30/01/2025 10:42

Professional cycling is debating whether to ban the poisonous gas

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A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin

29/01/2025 13:26

How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery

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Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding

29/01/2025 13:26

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops

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Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?

28/01/2025 16:55

Boom Supersonic’s demonstrator jet exceeds Mach 1

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Should you worry about microplastics?

24/01/2025 12:50

Little is known about the effects on humans—but limiting exposure to them seems prudent

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Wasps stole genes from viruses

22/01/2025 14:07

That probably assisted their evolutionary diversification

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America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone

22/01/2025 13:40

Whether it is a negotiating ploy remains to be seen

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Genetic engineering could help rid Australia of toxic cane toads

22/01/2025 13:35

It is better than freezing them to death

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High-tech antidotes for snake bites

21/01/2025 13:13

Genetic engineering and AI are powering the search for antivenins

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Can you breathe stress away?

17/01/2025 14:23

It won’t hurt to try. But scientists are only beginning to understand the links between the breath and the mind

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17/01/2025 06:39

We invite applications for the 2025 Richard Casement internship

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A better understanding of Huntington’s disease brings hope

16/01/2025 11:00

Previous research seems to have misinterpreted what is going on

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Is obesity a disease?

15/01/2025 12:54

It wasn’t. But it is now

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Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs

15/01/2025 12:50

Those with the syndrome have more of a protein implicated in dementia

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Should you start lifting weights?

10/01/2025 14:12

You’ll stay healthier for longer if you’re strong

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Does melatonin work for jet lag?

08/01/2025 13:53

It can help. But it depends where you’re going

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Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

08/01/2025 13:52

Eventually, models could be trained without any dedicated hardware at all

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How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science

07/01/2025 14:56

A stronger R&D base, they hope, will transform their countries’ economies. Will their plan work?

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Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last

01/01/2025 12:53

Trials are under way against skin, brain and lung tumours

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New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests

01/01/2025 12:51

It could sniff out blazes long before they spread out of control

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Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?

01/01/2025 12:50

After 25 years, Blue Origin finally heads to orbit, and hopes to become a contender in the private space race

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Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis

28/12/2024 10:41

There is growing evidence that it can help with pain, depression and more

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Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all

18/12/2024 13:04

We analyse two centuries of scholarly work

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Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society

18/12/2024 13:00

Survival is a case of child’s play

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Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

16/12/2024 13:15

Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role

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Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters

12/12/2024 14:01

The mystery of exactly how people left Africa deepens

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Machine translation is almost a solved problem

11/12/2024 14:23

But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task

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AI can bring back a person’s own voice

11/12/2024 14:21

And it can generate sentences trained on their own writing

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Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast

11/12/2024 13:57

The industry is failing to make itself greener

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Why China is building a Starlink system of its own

06/12/2024 10:06

When it is finished, Qianfan could number 14,000 satellites, rivalling Elon Musk’s system

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Lots of hunting. Not much gathering. The diet of early Americans

04/12/2024 14:01

What they ate is given away by the isotopes in their bodies

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Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed to walk again

04/12/2024 13:54

Implanted electrodes allowed one man to climb stairs unaided

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Can anyone realistically challenge SpaceX’s launch supremacy?

04/12/2024 13:54

And if its boss now tries to kill NASA’s own heavy lifter, will that matter?

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Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more

03/12/2024 12:33

Ideas for making money in orbit that seemed mad in the 1960s now look sane

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Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society

28/11/2024 08:53

His continued membership has led to a high-profile resignation

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Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions

27/11/2024 13:51

Without trees to circulate moisture, the land is getting hotter and drier

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Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques

27/11/2024 13:15

They could soon show their moves in settings from car factories to care homes

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Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you

25/11/2024 15:40

A mystery is finally being solved

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Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever

20/11/2024 13:17

Concerns about some of their business models are building

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The two types of human laugh

20/11/2024 12:47

One is caused by tickling; the other by everything else

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Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies

20/11/2024 12:45

It has thus far shed light on everything from organ formation to the causes of inflammation

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How squid could help people get over their needle phobia

20/11/2024 12:41

Cephalopod ink propulsion is inspiring an alternative to syringes

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Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda

13/11/2024 13:16

Climate change and fish farming are endangering its future

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Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models

13/11/2024 13:15

More accurate predictions will lead to better policy-making

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Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena

13/11/2024 13:15

The key is minimising the disruptive effects of ventilation

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There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps

11/11/2024 12:24

The pay dirt could be 15 times richer than natural deposits

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A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

06/11/2024 12:40

Companies that bet on the right one could win big

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As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback

06/11/2024 12:34

Levels of the vital nutrient are falling rapidly in America

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How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy

06/11/2024 12:21

They pull off a trick previously thought unique to a few insects

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China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid

05/11/2024 10:03

It will be only the second country to conduct such a planetary defence experiment

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Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder

30/10/2024 14:18

It should, instead, be seen as a different way of being normal

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Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo

30/10/2024 13:41

The problem of variable buoyancy is being overcome

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Space may be worse for humans than thought

30/10/2024 13:39

Why going into orbit sends cells haywire

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Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables

28/10/2024 11:45

Inbuilt lenses transmit sunlight to symbiotic algae

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Winemakers are building grape-picking robots

23/10/2024 12:34

Automating this delicate task is harder than it seems

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Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk

23/10/2024 12:26

They can guzzle extreme amounts for their size, without suffering ill effects

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The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes

23/10/2024 12:25

Such techniques have helped secure two convictions this year

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Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power

21/10/2024 14:50

Their efficiency rates far exceed those of conventional silicon panels

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SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival

17/10/2024 09:55

The company’s successes are also showing up the agency’s failings

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Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents

16/10/2024 08:41

The conditions are hot, sulphurous and low in oxygen

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary

13/10/2024 14:32

If SpaceX can land and reuse the most powerful rocket ever made what can’t it do?

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Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?

11/10/2024 09:25

A spacecraft heading to Europa is designed to find out

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Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish

10/10/2024 09:24

Medaka catch rides on obliging birds, confirming one of Darwin’s hunches

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AI wins big at the Nobels

10/10/2024 09:24

Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence models and those using them for protein-structure prediction

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Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life

10/10/2024 09:24

Solutions include bendy propellers and “acoustic black holes”

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Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry

09/10/2024 12:15

The award honours protein design and the use of AI for protein-structure prediction

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AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics

08/10/2024 11:38

The award, to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, stretches the definition of the field

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A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA

07/10/2024 10:47

These tiny molecules regulate genes and control how cells develop and behave

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AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions

02/10/2024 12:45

Models look for sound patterns undetectable by the human ear

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Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work

02/10/2024 12:43

Better tools are needed to analyse their effects

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Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases

02/10/2024 12:41

The isolation can be geographic or cultural

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An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow

02/10/2024 11:02

For now, it is the most sophisticated connectome ever made

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Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing

25/09/2024 13:05

Making treatment quick and affordable will be the challenge

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New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines

25/09/2024 12:57

Across Europe, nearly a quarter of water goes to waste

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NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover

25/09/2024 12:55

Never used, one previous owner

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The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture

25/09/2024 12:54

What genetic analysis of a 3,500-year-old sour goat’s cheese from Xinjiang reveals

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New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity

19/09/2024 08:42

Researchers are looking beyond the cathode

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China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans

19/09/2024 08:42

Tweaks to software blunt the shortage of powerful hardware

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Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones

19/09/2024 08:42

Mining for raw materials may peak by the mid-2030s

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Earth may once have had a planetary ring

18/09/2024 14:27

It would have collapsed 450m years ago

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How bush pigs saved Madagascar’s baobabs

18/09/2024 14:22

Non-native species are not always harmful

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Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power

13/09/2024 13:08

Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough

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The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon

11/09/2024 13:34

It would be 1,000 times more accurate than today’s atomic timekeepers

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Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk

11/09/2024 13:33

They may one day replicate its benefits

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Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies

11/09/2024 13:32

Some of its myriad components are being tested as treatments for cancer and other diseases

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Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit

10/09/2024 13:42

All it takes is very long radio waves

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A common food dye can make skin transparent

05/09/2024 14:01

The discovery allows scientists to see inside live animals

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Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days

04/09/2024 14:07

The effect is small but consistent

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New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet

04/09/2024 14:05

The key is energy efficiency

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The noisome economics of dung beetles

02/09/2024 13:19

They are worth millions a year to cattle ranchers

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Digital twins are making companies more efficient

28/08/2024 12:57

They will also help them reap the benefits of advances in AI

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Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation

28/08/2024 12:57

They are being used to simulate everything from bodily organs to planet Earth

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Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing

28/08/2024 12:56

Makers of Formula 1 cars and jet engines are leading the way

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Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier

27/08/2024 22:32

Flying on Elon Musk’s spaceship; sponsored by Doritos

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Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating

22/08/2024 08:54

Climate change is accelerating the blaze

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The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break

21/08/2024 13:08

America’s standards agency thinks it has identified three

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Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science

14/08/2024 12:35

It aims to make research and tinkering more accessible to the public

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Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants

14/08/2024 12:33

The sooner they can be weeded out, the better

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AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns

14/08/2024 12:31

The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them

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Exposure to the sun’s UV radiation may be good for you

12/08/2024 12:47

For now, though, keep the sun cream handy

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Engineered dust could help make Mars habitable

07/08/2024 14:07

Restoring water on Mars may be easier than you think

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New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin

07/08/2024 12:13

They take their inspiration from electric eels

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Do women make better doctors than men?

07/08/2024 12:12

Research suggests yes

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Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent

07/08/2024 12:12

Scientists have turned it into clothing

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How to reduce the risk of developing dementia

05/08/2024 12:26

A healthy lifestyle can prevent or delay almost half of cases

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GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best

31/07/2024 12:29

Beware model-makers marking their own homework

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How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks

31/07/2024 12:25

“Raven Sentry” was a successful experiment in open-source intelligence

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Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed

31/07/2024 12:23

The promising treatments still face technical and economic hurdles, though

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How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks

24/07/2024 12:19

It is pioneering acoustic detection, with surprising success

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The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”

24/07/2024 12:17

Nodules on the seabed, rather than photosynthesis, are the source of the gas

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Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience

24/07/2024 12:16

Complete with holograms on the windscreen

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Clues to a possible cure for AIDS

22/07/2024 04:25

Doctors, scientists and activists meet to discuss how to pummel HIV

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AI can predict tipping points before they happen

17/07/2024 13:55

Potential applications span from economics to epidemiology

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Astronomers have found a cave on the moon

17/07/2024 13:53

Such structures could serve as habitats for future astronauts

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H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic

17/07/2024 13:53

Existing immunity and vaccines may soften its severity

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Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years

11/07/2024 11:00

They contain unprecedented detail about their long-dead parent organisms

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Researchers are figuring out how large language models work

11/07/2024 09:55

Such insights could help make them safer, more truthful and easier to use

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A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products

11/07/2024 09:55

Polymers from algae can turn menstrual blood into a gel

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Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice

10/07/2024 13:08

A successful jab would be a boon to fish farmers

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New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager

03/07/2024 13:05

One Chilean hybrid has a spicy taste, with hints of clove

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A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery

03/07/2024 13:02

It would be fast enough to guide the hands of neurosurgeons

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The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights

03/07/2024 13:01

Even after a century of research, Barro Colorado in Panama continues to shed light on natural life

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A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone

01/07/2024 12:36

Those using the prosthetic can walk as fast as those with intact lower limbs

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How the last mammoths went extinct

27/06/2024 12:25

Small genetic mutations accumulated through inbreeding may have made them vulnerable to disease

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The race to prevent satellite Armageddon

27/06/2024 09:40

Fears of a Russian nuclear weapon in orbit are inspiring new protective tech

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At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI

26/06/2024 13:54

That might not be a bad thing

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A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm

26/06/2024 12:28

Health officials warn it could rapidly spread beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo

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What The Economist thought about solar power

21/06/2024 10:27

A look back through our archives: sometimes prescient, sometimes not

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How physics can improve image-generating AI

20/06/2024 09:26

The laws governing electromagnetism and even the weak nuclear force could be worth mimicking

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A flower’s female sex organs can speed up fertilisation

20/06/2024 09:26

They can also stop it from happening

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The dominant model of the universe is creaking

19/06/2024 13:21

Dark energy could break it apart

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Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use

14/06/2024 14:53

More rigorous experiments could improve those odds

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The secret to taking better penalties

14/06/2024 11:49

Practise with an augmented-reality headset

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China has become a scientific superpower

12/06/2024 13:42

From plant biology to superconductor physics the country is at the cutting edge

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Like people, elephants call each other by name

10/06/2024 13:13

And anthropoexceptionalism takes another tumble

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Elon Musk’s Starship makes a test flight without exploding

07/06/2024 11:34

Crucially, the upper stage of the giant rocket survived atmospheric re-entry

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Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum

06/06/2024 08:57

Giant curtains to keep warm water away from glaciers strike some as too risky

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The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans

05/06/2024 12:32

The engineering challenges involved are fiendish, but worth tackling

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Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?

05/06/2024 12:31

There is more to AI than ChatGPT

The Economist - Science & technology

Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming

29/05/2024 10:47

Their latest models navigate by sight alone

The Economist - Science & technology

Progress on the science of menstruation—at last

29/05/2024 10:46

Newly developed research models show promise

The Economist - Science & technology

Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America

28/05/2024 11:59

The ancestors of these two neighbouring broods last met in 1803

The Economist - Science & technology

A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm

24/05/2024 15:35

How close is the H5N1 outbreak to becoming the next pandemic?

The Economist - Science & technology

The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves

22/05/2024 11:16

It takes inspiration from the “Caspian Sea Monster”

The Economist - Science & technology

A new age of sail begins

21/05/2024 09:37

By harnessing wind power, high-tech sails can help cut marine pollution

The Economist - Science & technology

A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move

20/05/2024 12:46

All that’s needed is electricity and exercise

The Economist - Science & technology

It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones

17/05/2024 13:27

A system at the heart of global telecommunications is woefully insecure

The Economist - Science & technology

The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching

15/05/2024 12:54

Continued global warming will mean its obliteration

The Economist - Science & technology

Some corals are better at handling the heat

15/05/2024 12:51

Scientists are helping them breed

The Economist - Science & technology

Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable

13/05/2024 13:16

Working together will make LLMs more capable and intelligent—for good and ill

The Economist - Science & technology

A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories

10/05/2024 13:26

CopyCop churned out 19,000 deceptive posts in a month

The Economist - Science & technology

To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts

08/05/2024 12:22

Running around the inside of a barrel might help

The Economist - Science & technology

Wind turbines keep getting bigger

08/05/2024 12:21

That poses a giant transport problem

The Economist - Science & technology

New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever

08/05/2024 12:17

Pesticide use could be cut by up to 90%

The Economist - Science & technology

Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya

05/05/2024 05:43

The ancient culture, which transformed Europe, was also less murderous than once thought

The Economist - Science & technology

Producing fake information is getting easier

01/05/2024 14:24

But that’s not the whole story, when it comes to AI

The Economist - Science & technology

Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?

01/05/2024 13:46

Understanding it will lead to better ways to fight it

The Economist - Science & technology

Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most

01/05/2024 13:45

Researchers and governments need to co-ordinate; tech companies need to open up

The Economist - Science & technology

The truth behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul

01/05/2024 13:13

The anatomy of a disinformation campaign

The Economist - Science & technology

A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible

29/04/2024 11:28

That would ease the demand for type-O donors

The Economist - Science & technology

Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers

24/04/2024 14:18

Psychiatrists are at long last starting to connect the dots

The Economist - Science & technology

Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation

24/04/2024 14:12

This simplifies things for the world’s timekeepers

The Economist - Science & technology

Memorable images make time pass more slowly

24/04/2024 14:11

The effect could give our brains longer to process information

The Economist - Science & technology

Large language models are getting bigger and better

17/04/2024 15:08

Can they keep improving forever?

The Economist - Science & technology

What is screen time doing to children?

17/04/2024 14:57

Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media

The Economist - Science & technology

Locust-busting is getting an upgrade

17/04/2024 14:48

From pesticides to drones, new technologies are helping win an age-old battle

The Economist - Science & technology

The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates

11/04/2024 10:42

Alcohol and drugs kill many in the early days of freedom

The Economist - Science & technology

New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships

11/04/2024 10:41

Collisions kill 20,000 every year

The Economist - Science & technology

Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions

10/04/2024 13:17

Different colonies build in competing architectural styles

The Economist - Science & technology

How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia

08/04/2024 13:38

From target hunting to catching sanctions-busters, its war is increasingly high-tech

The Economist - Science & technology

The science that built the AI revolution

03/04/2024 11:30

A special series of “Babbage”, our podcast on science and technology

The Economist - Science & technology

Why robots should take more inspiration from plants

03/04/2024 07:18

They would be able to grow, grip and move in more useful ways

The Economist - Science & technology

A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers

02/04/2024 09:58

The cyber-scare shows why the internet’s crowdsourced code is vulnerable

The Economist - Science & technology

Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?

30/03/2024 11:59

Scientists are finding that anti-obesity medicines can also help many other diseases

The Economist - Science & technology

Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting

27/03/2024 10:11

The world must pay more attention to its southern pole

The Economist - Science & technology

Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting

26/03/2024 12:05

Their techniques are passed down through the generations

The Economist - Science & technology

A new generation of music-making algorithms is here

21/03/2024 10:15

Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers

The Economist - Science & technology

How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs

20/03/2024 13:39

Generations of breeding are to blame

The Economist - Science & technology

AI models can improve corner-kick tactics

19/03/2024 12:19

Football coaches should pay attention

The Economist - Science & technology

Elon Musk’s Starship reaches space successfully

14/03/2024 14:44

Though it failed to return to Earth, it’s a step nearer to the stars

The Economist - Science & technology

A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk

13/03/2024 13:25

It would convert vocal-cord movements into sound

The Economist - Science & technology

New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding

13/03/2024 11:12

Machine learning algorithms could help bring it down

The Economist - Science & technology

How to train your large language model

13/03/2024 11:11

A new technique is speeding up the process

The Economist - Science & technology

How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere

13/03/2024 11:10

New technologies could provide water to Earth’s most arid climates

The Economist - Science & technology

Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity

08/03/2024 11:44

A gene mutation slows the dogs’ metabolism and makes them constantly hungry

The Economist - Science & technology

Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful

06/03/2024 12:58

It could help launch satellites

The Economist - Science & technology

A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death

06/03/2024 12:57

AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate

The Economist - Science & technology

Physicists are reimagining dark matter

06/03/2024 12:53

There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang

The Economist - Science & technology

Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs

05/03/2024 14:22

They could be used to improve treatments in the womb

The Economist - Science & technology

A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs

28/02/2024 12:17

All use different chemistries for cost or performance

The Economist - Science & technology

Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus

28/02/2024 12:13

Vaccines and antivirals are already undergoing trials

The Economist - Science & technology

AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?

28/02/2024 12:11

It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power

The Economist - Science & technology

Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing

28/02/2024 12:11

The answer, according to neuroscience

The Economist - Science & technology

The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane

21/02/2024 12:34

At five times the speed of sound, a craft flies through plasma, not air

The Economist - Science & technology

Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail

21/02/2024 12:31

They would need radar to do it

The Economist - Science & technology

Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection

21/02/2024 12:29

Finding similarities between post-infectious illnesses could lead to better treatments

The Economist - Science & technology

New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes

20/02/2024 11:16

The trick is to outsmart the immune system

The Economist - Science & technology

For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria

15/02/2024 11:00

The organisms near a tea plant’s roots can influence the depth of flavour in its leaves

The Economist - Science & technology

What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour

15/02/2024 10:59

Since the introduction of Hawk-Eye, umpires have been biting their tongues

The Economist - Science & technology

A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed

15/02/2024 07:29

The odds are stacked against it

The Economist - Science & technology

A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style

09/02/2024 14:30

Its final run set a record for how much energy such reactions can produce

The Economist - Science & technology

The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon

07/02/2024 13:16

At last, progress is being made on a condition that affects one woman in ten

The Economist - Science & technology

Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby

07/02/2024 13:15

“Chair” and “ball” were among little AI’s first words

The Economist - Science & technology

NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science

07/02/2024 11:59

It will monitor tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans

The Economist - Science & technology

Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI

06/02/2024 12:03

The new techniques could help rediscover lost works from antiquity

The Economist - Science & technology

How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine

05/02/2024 14:21

First-person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines

The Economist - Science & technology

Why some whales can smell in stereo

01/02/2024 09:28

One nostril is good. But two can be better

The Economist - Science & technology

AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress

01/02/2024 09:28

Hallucinations, deepfakes and simple nonsense: there are plenty of risks

The Economist - Science & technology

Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones

01/02/2024 09:28

Designers are experimenting with tentacles, spikes and third thumbs

The Economist - Science & technology

Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment

29/01/2024 11:03

Childhood treatment with contaminated human growth hormone may cause the disease years later

The Economist - Science & technology

How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo

25/01/2024 14:05

A tale of elephants, thorn trees, and the sensitivity of ecosystems

The Economist - Science & technology

Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material

24/01/2024 14:14

“Altermagnets” have been hiding in plain sight for 90 years

The Economist - Science & technology

Why AI needs to learn new languages

24/01/2024 14:01

Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English

CNBC - Business News

Luxury credit card rivalry heats up as Amex, JPMorgan tease updates to their premier cards

16/06/2025 10:05

The long-running rivalry between the country's top premium credit cards is about to heat up again.

CNBC - Business News

Battle over Jimmy Buffett's $275 million estate highlights risks of family trusts

16/06/2025 09:40

The late singer's widow, Jane, and the co-trustee of the estate, Richard Mozenter, have filed lawsuits against one another.

CNBC - Business News

Starbucks moves to the next phase in its turnaround: Winning over employees

15/06/2025 08:00

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol pitched his turnaround strategy to store managers at the company's Leadership Experience in Las Vegas.

CNBC - Business News

Boeing Dreamliner crash, military escalations darken mood at Paris Air Show

15/06/2025 07:11

The trade event is a big draw for the industry every year, as Boeing, Airbus and other aerospace giants host parties, sign deals and show off new aircraft.

CNBC - Business News

Air India crash: What to know about the first fatal Boeing Dreamliner tragedy

14/06/2025 09:11

An Air India jet flying from Ahmedabad to London crashed shortly after takeoff into a fireball with 242 people aboard.

CNBC - Business News

Airlines divert, suspend flights after Israel's strike on Iran closes airspace in Middle East

13/06/2025 20:03

Several flights diverted after Israel's Iran strikes early Friday while Delta and United canceled their service to Tel Aviv.

CNBC - Business News

Shares of scandal-plagued Brazilian meat giant JBS rise 3% in U.S. public debut

13/06/2025 16:45

Brazilian meat giant JBS is making its U.S. public market debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "JBS."

CNBC - Business News

Air India plane crash kills at least 241 people, 1 passenger survives

13/06/2025 14:47

The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known and could take months to determine.

CNBC - Business News

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps

13/06/2025 13:40

The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity due to stars such as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

CNBC - Business News

Prices for common baby items are rising due to Trump's tariffs, congressional analysis says

12/06/2025 16:21

The analysis tracked the prices of five popular baby gear categories: car seats, bassinets, strollers, high chairs and baby monitors.

CNBC - Business News

Fed’s inspector general is reviewing Trump administration’s moves to dismantle CFPB

12/06/2025 12:18

Key oversight arms of the U.S. government are examining the whirlwind of activity at the CFPB after Trump's acting head Russell Vought took over in February.

CNBC - Business News

Howard Schultz says he 'did a cartwheel' when Starbucks CEO Niccol coined 'back to Starbucks' strategy

12/06/2025 12:06

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made a surprise appearance at the company's Leadership Experience in Las Vegas.

CNBC - Business News

RFK Jr. names some vaccine critics to key CDC committee after ousting entire panel

12/06/2025 11:39

The new members will join the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CNBC - Business News

Most retail executives expect Trump to walk back 'reciprocal' tariffs, survey finds

12/06/2025 11:32

As negotiations with China continue, retail executives are optimistic that reciprocal tariffs could be walked back.

CNBC - Business News

Family offices are struggling to recruit and retain staff, and salary isn’t the biggest challenge

12/06/2025 07:38

Private investment firms of the ultra-rich need to offer more than hefty paychecks to lure top talent.

CNBC - Business News

State AGs led by NY's Letitia James pressure Meta to clean up investment scams on Facebook

11/06/2025 13:26

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, is struggling to control the rise of cyber scams on its platforms.

CNBC - Business News

GM to invest $4 billion in U.S. plants amid tariffs for Mexican-produced vehicles

11/06/2025 13:24

GM plans to invest $4 billion in three American assembly plants, including moving or increasing production of two Mexican-produced vehicles to U.S. plants.

CNBC - Business News

Women's Tennis Association unveils rule protecting players' rankings during fertility procedures

11/06/2025 13:20

The Women's Tennis Association has introduced a rule allowing players to protect their rankings during fertility treatments.

CNBC - Business News

Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas

10/06/2025 15:52

Starbucks will launch "Green Dot Assist" in stores in the U.S. and Canada in fiscal 2026.

CNBC - Business News

RFK Jr.'s firing of CDC vaccine panel undermines science, could threaten public health, experts say

10/06/2025 14:55

Some experts say the move undermines science, disrupts a trusted regulatory process and could sow public distrust in vaccinations and federal health agencies.

CNBC - Business News

In China, fears grow of an EV financial crisis amid pricing war

10/06/2025 14:34

Electric vehicle makers in China, led by the country's market leader BYD, have been engaged in a bruising price war.

CNBC - Business News

FanDuel adds 50-cent surcharge on Illinois bets to offset state taxes, DraftKings may follow

10/06/2025 11:55

The new tax is applied to each wager that a sportsbook accepts — 25 cents per bet for the first 20 million wagers, 50 cents per wager after that.

CNBC - Business News

RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines

10/06/2025 11:21

It's the latest move by Kennedy – a prominent vaccine skeptic – to change and potentially undermine vaccinations in the U.S. since he took the helm at HHS.

CNBC - Business News

Boeing airplane orders rise to highest level since late 2023 ahead of Paris Air Show

10/06/2025 11:00

Boeing booked 303 gross orders in May, the most since December 2023.

CNBC - Business News

Paramount to cut 3% of U.S. workforce as it deepens cost-cutting

10/06/2025 08:48

It's the latest round of layoffs at Paramount as it contends with cord-cutting and prepares to merge with Skydance Media.

CNBC - Business News

Disney to pay Comcast $438.7 million to take full control of Hulu, ending lengthy valuation process

09/06/2025 17:29

Disney will pay Comcast an additional $438.7 million to acquire its stake in streaming service Hulu.

CNBC - Business News

FDA approves Merck’s RSV shot for infants, ramping up competition with Sanofi and AstraZeneca

09/06/2025 16:13

Merck's shot will compete against a similar blockbuster treatment from Sanofi and AstraZeneca called Beyfortus.

CNBC - Business News

Warner Bros. Discovery split throws the future of TNT Sports into question

09/06/2025 15:51

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav suggests TNT Sports may move away from HBO Max in the future.

CNBC - Business News

Walmart is using its own fintech firm to provide credit cards after dumping Capital One

09/06/2025 14:10

Walmart had leaned on Capital One as exclusive provider of its credit card since 2018, but sued the bank in 2023 so that it could exit the relationship.

CNBC - Business News

Chipotle to launch Adobo Ranch dip after sluggish start to the year

09/06/2025 08:09

Adding Adobo Ranch to one of Chipotle's burrito bowls will cost 75 cents extra.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

Be a better decider

07/03/2025 00:00

Asreinventionpressurerises,theMarchissueofs+bexploreshowCEOsneedtorewiretheirdecision-making.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

What does it take to thrive in an uncertain world?

04/02/2025 13:00

In this special episode of Take on Tomorrow, PwC's Sarah von Fischer is joined by Carol Stubbings, PwC's Global Chief Commercial Officer, and Paul Griggs, PwC US Senior Partner. The trio discuss the findings of PwC's 28th Annual Global CEO Survey and unpack how leaders are tackling disruption.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

What does responsible AI look like in the age of agentic AI?

28/01/2025 13:00

As artificial intelligence evolves, how can we ensure transparency and accountability? Matt Wood, PwC's Global and US Commercial Technology & Innovation Officer, discusses the challenges and opportunities of building confidence in agentic AI.

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PwC's 28th Annual Global CEO Survey

20/01/2025 13:00

CEOs report early productivity gains from generative AI and rising payoffs from investments in sustainability. The challenge is to increase scope and speed.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

What does it take to run a responsible business?

03/12/2024 13:00

On the latest episode of the Take on Tomorrow podcast, Charles Conn, Patagonia Board Chair, shares how to align ethics with profit, offering lessons in balancing purpose with performance.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

Take on Tomorrow @ the APEC CEO Summit

19/11/2024 13:00

On the latest episode of the Take on Tomorrow podcast, PwC's Global Chairman, Mohamed Kande, discusses the vital role the Asia-Pacific region plays in inclusive global growth, the impact of new technologies, and how to stay resilient in a shifting world.?

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Fjällräven forges a trail in outdoor sustainability

18/11/2024 01:00

Fjällräven's CEO, Martin Axelhed, discusses the brand's commitment to sustainability and its impact on growt

strategy+business: STRATEGY

Can ideas be the engine of growth?

04/11/2024 13:00

On the latest episode of the Take on Tomorrow podcast, economist and author Daniel Susskind explains how innovation and ideas can lay the groundwork for a new way to measure growth.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

How can we secure the future of food?

22/10/2024 13:00

The Take on Tomorrow podcast examines the role businesses can play in reimagining our food systems.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

The CEO's sustainability checklist

17/10/2024 00:00

The October issue of s+b explores how reinventing your business for a sustainable future starts with four mission-critical actions.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

When is the right time to reinvent your business?

16/10/2024 13:00

A set of indicators could provide advance notice of impending periods of business model change in sectors and industries.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

Is quantum computing about to radically change the world?

10/10/2024 13:00

Quantum computing is set to revolutionize our lives--are businesses and society ready? Caltech's Spiros Michalakis explains how this quantum leap could reshape our future.

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Do the right thing: Building trust in turbulent times

30/09/2024 01:00

Companies should focus on the human impact of their core business, says academic and consultant Alison Taylor.

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Game over to game on

12/09/2024 00:00

The September issue of s+b explores how to level up your skills approach to win the battle for talent.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

Ten questions for a winning climate-transition business strategy

09/09/2024 01:00

Harvard Business School's George Serafeim frames key questions to help executives craft effective climate-transition strategies.

strategy+business: STRATEGY

From trade-offs to payoffs: CEOs on creating value with climate action

06/08/2024 01:00

Our survey of 4,700 CEOs found that companies taking more action on climate-related opportunities and risks also have better financial performance.

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Generative AI: The 21st-century power play

30/07/2024 00:00

The August issue of s+b explores how GenAI is sparking a surge of innovation akin to the advent of electricity. Discover how to channel its reinvention potential.

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CN Rail is forging new alliances to reimagine supply chains

11/07/2024 01:00

Tracy Robinson, CEO of CN Rail, speaks to s+b about the company's role in reshaping the rail industry through the growth of intermodal networks, which bring together traditional competitors from across the transportation ecosystem.

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Tech Translated: Neuromorphic computing

25/06/2024 01:00

Potentially the key to the next generation of true artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing could revolutionize business.

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Tech Translated: Embedded finance

18/06/2024 01:00

Embedded finance enables the integration of financial services across industries, creating opportunities for new business models and paths to value.

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Tech Translated: Metamaterials

04/06/2024 01:00

Synthetic metamaterials offer unusual properties that can unlock innovative new approaches to solving long-running challenges.

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Tech Translated: 4D printing

04/06/2024 00:00

4D printing enables the creation of objects and materials that can change over time, offering radical new business opportunities.

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From sludge to success

28/05/2024 00:00

The June issue of s+b explores how the road to business renewal starts when CEOs step in to reduce organizational friction.

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From stagnation to innovation: Make business model reinvention real

21/05/2024 00:00

A practical guide for reimagining how your company creates, delivers, and captures value.

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The big power of small goals

16/05/2024 00:00

Employees who are disciplined about setting daily goals not only accomplish more but also feel better about their work. Here are three ways that managers can make daily goal-setting a habit.

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Preparing for climate risks to key commodities: What businesses should know

30/04/2024 01:00

PwC research shows how heat stress and drought imperil the production of critical minerals, food crops, and industrial metals. Companies can limit disruption by acting now.

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The path to generative AI value: Setting the flywheel in motion

08/04/2024 01:00

How organizations can structure their GenAI pursuits to blaze a path to value and create lasting momentum.

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Corporate "power changers"

27/03/2024 00:00

The April issue of s+b explores how companies can reduce their energy consumption by 31% by decade's end and save a cool US$2 trillion a year--without sacrificing growth.

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Reimagining consumer insights at PepsiCo

25/03/2024 01:00

Stephan Gans wants to embed real-time, data-rich insights into PepsiCo's decision-making processes. As the food-and-beverage giant's Chief Consumer Insights and Analytics Officer, he's building a new set of tools to get there.

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From steam to sensors and solar: HSB's tale of reinvention

18/03/2024 01:00

John B. Riggs, CTO and SVP of Applied Technology Solutions at HSB (Hartford Steam Boiler), describes how the company is using technology to build new ventures and create new business models in the historically risk-averse insurance sector.