- + The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching—Continued global warming will mean its obliteration
- + Some corals are better at handling the heat—Scientists are helping them breed
- + Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable—Working together will make LLMs more capable and intelligent—for good and ill
- + A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories—CopyCop churned out 19,000 deceptive posts in a month
- + To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts—Running around the inside of a barrel might help
- + Wind turbines keep getting bigger—That poses a giant transport problem
- + New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever—Pesticide use could be cut by up to 90%
- + Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya—The ancient culture, which transformed Europe, was also less murderous than once thought
- + Producing fake information is getting easier—But that’s not the whole story, when it comes to AI
- + Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?—Understanding it will lead to better ways to fight it
- + Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most—Researchers and governments need to co-ordinate; tech companies need to open up
- + The truth behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul—The anatomy of a disinformation campaign
- + A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible—That would ease the demand for type-O donors
- + Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers—Psychiatrists are at long last starting to connect the dots
- + Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation—This simplifies things for the world’s timekeepers
- + Memorable images make time pass more slowly—The effect could give our brains longer to process information
- + Large language models are getting bigger and better—Can they keep improving forever?
- + What is screen time doing to children?—Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media
- + Locust-busting is getting an upgrade—From pesticides to drones, new technologies are helping win an age-old battle
- + Locust-busting is getting a upgrade—From pesticides to drones, new technologies are helping win an age-old battle
- + The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates—Alcohol and drugs kill many in the early days of freedom
- + New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships—Collisions kill 20,000 every year
- + Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions—Different colonies build in competing architectural styles
- + How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia—From target hunting to catching sanctions-busters, its war is increasingly high-tech
- + The science that built the AI revolution—A special series of “Babbage”, our podcast on science and technology
- + Why robots should take more inspiration from plants—They would be able to grow, grip and move in more useful ways
- + A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers—The cyber-scare shows why the internet’s crowdsourced code is vulnerable
- + Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?—Scientists are finding that anti-obesity medicines can also help many other diseases
- + Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting—The world must pay more attention to its southern pole
- + Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting—Their techniques are passed down through the generations
- + A new generation of music-making algorithms is here—Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers
- + How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs—Generations of breeding are to blame
- + AI models can improve corner-kick tactics—Football coaches should pay attention
- + Elon Musk’s Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt—Though it failed to return to Earth, it’s a step nearer to the stars
- + A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk—It would convert vocal-cord movements into sound
- + New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding—Machine learning algorithms could help bring it down
- + How to train your large language model—A new technique is speeding up the process
- + How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere—New technologies could provide water to Earth’s most arid climates
- + Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity—A gene mutation slows the dogs’ metabolism and makes them constantly hungry
- + Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful—It could help launch satellites
- + A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death—AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate
- + Physicists are reimagining dark matter—There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang
- + Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs—They could be used to improve treatments in the womb
- + A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs—All use different chemistries for cost or performance
- + Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus—Vaccines and antivirals are already undergoing trials
- + AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?—It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power
- + Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing—The answer, according to neuroscience
- + The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane—At five times the speed of sound, a craft flies through plasma, not air
- + Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail—They would need radar to do it
- + Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection—Finding similarities between post-infectious illnesses could lead to better treatments
- + New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes—The trick is to outsmart the immune system
- + For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria—The organisms near a tea plant’s roots can influence the depth of flavour in its leaves
- + What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour—Since the introduction of Hawk-Eye, umpires have been biting their tongues
- + A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed—The odds are stacked against it
- + A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style—Its final run set a record for how much energy such reactions can produce
- + The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon—At last, progress is being made on a condition that affects one woman in ten
- + Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby—“Chair” and “ball” were among little AI’s first words
- + NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science—It will monitor tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans
- + Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI—The new techniques could help rediscover lost works from antiquity
- + How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine—First-person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines
- + Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones—Designers are experimenting with tentacles, spikes and third thumbs
- + AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress—Hallucinations, deepfakes and simple nonsense: there are plenty of risks
- + Why some whales can smell in stereo—One nostril is good. But two can be better
- + Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment—Childhood treatment with contaminated human growth hormone may cause the disease years later
- + How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo—A tale of elephants, thorn trees, and the sensitivity of ecosystems
- + Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material—“Altermagnets” have been hiding in plain sight for 90 years
- + Why AI needs to learn new languages—Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English
- + Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?—A warming planet threatens the world’s favourite drug
- + Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable—Both detection software and watermarks can be defeated
- + Common sense is not actually very common—Very few claims meet with universal agreement
- + The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives—Most of America’s existing ones date from the second world war
- + We’re hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent—An opportunity to join our editorial staff in London
- + Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey—Their new technique could make the routine cloning of primates easier
- + 2023 was the hottest year ever—And 2024 could be warmer still
- + Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology’s credibility crisis—Her new job editing the field’s most prestigious journal should help
- + Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling—Contrary to what opponents of wind farms fear
- + Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?—What the science of ageing has to say about the presidential election
- + The Economist’s science and technology internship—We invite applications for the 2024 Richard Casement internship
- + An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon lander on board—Private firms are on the way to putting a man back on the lunar surface
- + Vast amounts of the world’s shipping sails unseen—New AI tools could help to eradicate blind spots on the oceans
- + Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight—The government needs to get out of the way and the private sector should step up
- + A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel—It would also be simpler and more fuel-efficient
- + Delivery robots will transform Christmas—Santa’s hi-tech little helpers
- + How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun—...and how listening to its return helped prepare them for Venus
- + Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones—Insights from evolution can also improve vaccines
- + Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet—3D components and exotic new materials can keep it going for a while longer
- + The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth—As recorded by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
- + Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?—The meat of the future remains too expensive in the present
- + A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile—Palmer Luckey’s firm hopes “Roadrunner” will shake up America’s arms industry
- + The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy—It will be the world’s biggest optical telescope by far—and a powerful time machine
- + Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day—But only for four seconds at a time
- + Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane—When it comes to climate change, methane is low-hanging fruit
- + Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?—A scientist notes ominous similarities to the ends of previous ice ages
- + A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science—Zillions of possible crystals exist. AI can help catalogue them
- + Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea—One way to fix an accidentally altered climate is to alter it again deliberately
- + A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves—And a way to figure out how, exactly, AI works its magic
- + SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon—Elon Musk’s Starlink business could soon be competing with Jeff Bezos’s Kuiper
- + Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer’s?—Some scientists think so. Others doubt the cells even exist
- + New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress—A new field hopes to apply science’s methods to science itself
- + Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?—What lies beneath a Louisiana lake
- + How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record—Neither craft looks much like a sailing boat
- + Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas’s tunnels—The “Gaza Metro” presents a big headache for the IDF
- + Microbiome treatments are taking off—Faecal transplants are just the start of a new sort of medicine
- + A new gonorrhoea drug was developed by a non-profit foundation—Antibiotics are not commercially attractive to pharmaceutical firms
- + Could AI help find valuable mineral deposits?—Computers have keener eyes than geologists
- + Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing—Embryoids promise many benefits, but pose tricky ethical questions
- + Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium—Unlike lithium, sodium is cheap and abundant
- + AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by listening—That could help check whether reforestation projects work as advertised
- + China approves the world’s first flying taxi—EHang could soon take passengers on pilotless joyrides over Guangzhou
- + What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago—Like ice cores, stalagmites preserve a long record of the climate
- + AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts—Computers could let archaeologists read hundreds of burnt scrolls from a Roman library
- + It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere—Like bacteria, the insects are becoming resistant to the chemicals used to kill them
- + How to predict the outcome of a coin toss—Coins are fair. Their tossers, less so
- + Scientists have published an atlas of the brain—Cataloguing its components may help understand how it works
- + American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too—That will be bad for both countries
- + Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on—One insect’s leavings is another’s dinner
- + A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale—No pilot’s licence will be necessary to fly the Helix
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