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2. Companies have plans to build robotic horses
3. Compressed music might be harmful to the ears
4. How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals
5. Dogs really do look and act just like their owners
7. A landmark study of gender medicine is caught in an ethics row
8. Rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people
9. The great Iberian power cut need not spell disaster for renewables
10. Can at-home brain stimulators make you feel better?
11. Australia’s dingoes are becoming a distinct species
12. Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant—and spreading
13. AI models can learn to conceal information from their users
14. The Carthaginians weren’t who you think they were
15. We’re hiring a Technical Lead for our AI Lab
16. How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain
17. Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation
18. Scientists are getting to grips with ice
19. AI models could help negotiators secure peace deals
20. Electric vehicles also cause air pollution
21. AI models are helping dirty industries go green
22. Could data centres ever be built in orbit?
23. The tricky task of calculating AI’s energy use
24. AI models can help generate cleaner power
25. Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”
26. How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet
28. What does space miso taste like?
29. Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
31. Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
32. Can Musk put people on Mars?
33. How harmful are electronic cigarettes?
35. Rumours on social media could cause sick people to feel worse
36. Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?
37. Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
38. What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?
39. Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off
40. The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
41. Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
42. Is butter bad for you?
43. Two private companies reach the Moon within four days
44. Satellites are polluting the stratosphere
45. AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
46. Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths
48. How artificial intelligence can make board games better
49. The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies
50. Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone
52. Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
53. How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science
54. New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
55. Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?
56. AI is being used to model football matches
57. A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
59. Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still
60. Does intermittent fasting work?
61. Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes
62. Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
63. Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
65. Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper
66. A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
67. Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
68. Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?
69. Should you worry about microplastics?
70. Wasps stole genes from viruses
71. America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone
72. Genetic engineering could help rid Australia of toxic cane toads
73. High-tech antidotes for snake bites
74. Can you breathe stress away?
75. The Economist’s science and technology internship
76. A better understanding of Huntington’s disease brings hope
78. Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs
79. Should you start lifting weights?
81. Training AI models might not need enormous data centres
82. How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science
83. Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last
84. New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests
85. Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?
86. Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis
87. Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
88. Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society
89. Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
90. Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
91. Machine translation is almost a solved problem
92. AI can bring back a person’s own voice
93. Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast
94. Why China is building a Starlink system of its own
95. Lots of hunting. Not much gathering. The diet of early Americans
96. Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed to walk again
97. Can anyone realistically challenge SpaceX’s launch supremacy?
98. Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
99. Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
100. Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions
101. Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques
102. Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
103. Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
104. The two types of human laugh
105. Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
106. How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
107. Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
108. Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
109. Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
110. There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
111. A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
112. As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
113. How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
114. China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
115. Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
116. Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo
117. Space may be worse for humans than thought
118. Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables
119. Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
120. Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk
121. The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes
122. Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
123. SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
124. Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
125. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
126. Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
127. Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish
128. AI wins big at the Nobels
129. Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life
130. Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
131. AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
132. A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA
133. AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
134. Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
135. Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
136. An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
137. Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
138. New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
140. The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
141. Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones
142. New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity
143. China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans
144. Earth may once have had a planetary ring
145. How bush pigs saved Madagascar’s baobabs
146. Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power
147. The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
148. Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
149. Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies
150. Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
151. A common food dye can make skin transparent
152. Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days
153. New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
154. The noisome economics of dung beetles
155. Digital twins are making companies more efficient
156. Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation
157. Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
158. Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier
159. Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
160. The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break
161. Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
162. Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
163. AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
164. Exposure to the sun’s UV radiation may be good for you
165. Engineered dust could help make Mars habitable
166. New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
168. Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent
169. How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
170. GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
171. How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
172. Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
173. How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
174. The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
175. Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
176. Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
177. AI can predict tipping points before they happen
178. Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
179. H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
180. Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
181. Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
182. A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
183. Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
184. New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
185. A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
186. The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
187. A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
188. How the last mammoths went extinct
189. The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
190. At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
191. A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
192. What The Economist thought about solar power
193. How physics can improve image-generating AI
194. A flower’s female sex organs can speed up fertilisation
195. The dominant model of the universe is creaking
196. Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
197. The secret to taking better penalties
198. China has become a scientific superpower
199. Like people, elephants call each other by name
200. Elon Musk’s Starship makes a test flight without exploding
201. Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
202. The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
203. Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?
204. Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming
205. Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
206. Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
207. A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
208. The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
209. A new age of sail begins
210. A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
211. It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones
212. The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
213. Some corals are better at handling the heat
214. Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
215. A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
216. To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
218. New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever
219. Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
220. Producing fake information is getting easier
221. Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
222. Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
223. The truth behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul
224. A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
225. Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
226. Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
227. Memorable images make time pass more slowly
228. Large language models are getting bigger and better
229. What is screen time doing to children?
230. Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
231. The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
232. New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
233. Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
234. How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
235. The science that built the AI revolution
236. Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
237. A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers
238. Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
239. Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
240. Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
241. A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
242. How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
243. AI models can improve corner-kick tactics
244. Elon Musk’s Starship reaches space successfully
245. A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
246. New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
247. How to train your large language model
248. How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
249. Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
250. Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
251. A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
252. Physicists are reimagining dark matter
253. Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
254. A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
255. Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
256. AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
257. Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
258. The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
259. Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
260. Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
261. New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
262. For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
263. What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
264. A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
265. A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
266. The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
267. Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
268. NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
269. Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
270. How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
271. Why some whales can smell in stereo
272. AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
273. Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
274. Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
275. How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo
276. Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
277. Why AI needs to learn new languages
278. Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
279. Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
280. Common sense is not actually very common
281. The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
282. We’re hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
283. Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
285. Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology’s credibility crisis
286. Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
287. Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
288. The Economist’s science and technology internship
289. An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon lander on board
290. Vast amounts of the world’s shipping sails unseen
291. Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
292. A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
294. How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
295. Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
296. Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet
297. The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
298. Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
299. A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile
300. The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
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