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1. Large language models are getting bigger and better
2. What is screen time doing to children?
3. Locust-busting is getting a upgrade
4. The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
5. New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
6. Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
7. How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
8. The science that built the AI revolution
9. Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
10. A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers
11. Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
12. Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
13. Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
14. A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
17. Elon Musk’s Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt
18. A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
19. New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
20. How to train your large language model
21. How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
22. Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
23. Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
24. A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
25. Physicists are reimagining dark matter
26. Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
27. A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
28. Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
29. AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
30. Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
31. The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
32. Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
33. Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
34. New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
35. For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
36. What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
37. A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
38. A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
39. The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
40. Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
41. NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
42. Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
43. How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
44. Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
46. AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
47. Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
48. How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo
49. Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
50. Why AI needs to learn new languages
51. Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
52. Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
53. Common sense is not actually very common
54. The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
55. We’re hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
56. Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
58. Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology’s credibility crisis
59. Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
60. Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
61. The Economist’s science and technology internship
62. An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon lander on board
63. Vast amounts of the world’s shipping sails unseen
64. Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
65. A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
67. How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
68. Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
69. Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet
70. The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
71. Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
72. A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile
73. The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
74. Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
75. Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
76. Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
77. A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
78. Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
79. A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
80. SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
81. Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer’s?
82. New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
83. Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
84. How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
85. Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas’s tunnels
86. Microbiome treatments are taking off
87. A new gonorrhoea drug was developed by a non-profit foundation
88. Could AI help find valuable mineral deposits?
89. Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing
90. Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
91. AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by listening
92. China approves the world’s first flying taxi
93. What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
94. AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
95. It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
96. How to predict the outcome of a coin toss
97. Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
98. American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too
99. Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on
100. A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale
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