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2. Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
3. Can Musk put people on Mars?
4. How harmful are electronic cigarettes?
6. Rumours on social media could cause sick people to feel worse
7. Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?
8. Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
9. What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?
10. Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off
11. The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
12. Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
13. Is butter bad for you?
14. Two private companies reach the Moon within four days
15. Satellites are polluting the stratosphere
16. AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
17. Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths
19. How artificial intelligence can make board games better
20. The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies
21. Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone
23. Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
24. How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science
25. New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
26. Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?
27. AI is being used to model football matches
28. A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
30. Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still
31. Does intermittent fasting work?
32. Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes
33. Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
34. Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
36. Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper
37. A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
38. Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
39. Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?
40. Should you worry about microplastics?
41. Wasps stole genes from viruses
42. America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone
43. Genetic engineering could help rid Australia of toxic cane toads
44. High-tech antidotes for snake bites
45. Can you breathe stress away?
46. The Economist’s science and technology internship
47. A better understanding of Huntington’s disease brings hope
49. Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs
50. Should you start lifting weights?
52. Training AI models might not need enormous data centres
53. How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science
54. Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last
55. New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests
56. Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?
57. Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis
58. Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
59. Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society
60. Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
61. Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
62. Machine translation is almost a solved problem
63. AI can bring back a person’s own voice
64. Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast
65. Why China is building a Starlink system of its own
66. Lots of hunting. Not much gathering. The diet of early Americans
67. Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed to walk again
68. Can anyone realistically challenge SpaceX’s launch supremacy?
69. Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
70. Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
71. Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions
72. Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques
73. Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
74. Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
75. The two types of human laugh
76. Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
77. How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
78. Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
79. Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
80. Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
81. There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
82. A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
83. As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
84. How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
85. China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
86. Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
87. Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo
88. Space may be worse for humans than thought
89. Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables
90. Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
91. Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk
92. The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes
93. Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
94. SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
95. Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
96. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
97. Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
98. Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life
99. AI wins big at the Nobels
100. Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish
101. Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
102. AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
103. A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA
104. AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
105. Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
106. Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
107. An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
108. Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
109. New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
111. The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
112. China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans
113. Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones
114. New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity
115. Earth may once have had a planetary ring
116. How bush pigs saved Madagascar’s baobabs
117. Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power
118. The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
119. Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
120. Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies
121. Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
122. A common food dye can make skin transparent
123. Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days
124. New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
125. The noisome economics of dung beetles
126. Digital twins are making companies more efficient
127. Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation
128. Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
129. Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier
130. Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
131. The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break
132. Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
133. Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
134. AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
135. Exposure to the sun’s UV radiation may be good for you
136. Engineered dust could help make Mars habitable
137. New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
139. Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent
140. How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
141. GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
142. How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
143. Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
144. How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
145. The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
146. Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
147. Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
148. AI can predict tipping points before they happen
149. Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
150. H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
151. Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
152. Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
153. A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
154. Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
155. New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
156. A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
157. The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
158. A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
159. How the last mammoths went extinct
160. The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
161. At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
162. A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
163. What The Economist thought about solar power
164. A flower’s female sex organs can speed up fertilisation
165. How physics can improve image-generating AI
166. The dominant model of the universe is creaking
167. Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
168. The secret to taking better penalties
169. China has become a scientific superpower
170. Like people, elephants call each other by name
171. Elon Musk’s Starship makes a test flight without exploding
172. Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
173. The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
174. Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?
175. Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming
176. Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
177. Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
178. A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
179. The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
180. A new age of sail begins
181. A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
182. It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones
183. The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
184. Some corals are better at handling the heat
185. Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
186. A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
187. To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
189. New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever
190. Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
191. Producing fake information is getting easier
192. Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
193. Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
194. The truth behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul
195. A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
196. Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
197. Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
198. Memorable images make time pass more slowly
199. Large language models are getting bigger and better
200. What is screen time doing to children?
201. Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
202. The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
203. New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
204. Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
205. How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
206. The science that built the AI revolution
207. Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
208. A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers
209. Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
210. Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
211. Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
212. A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
213. How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
214. AI models can improve corner-kick tactics
215. Elon Musk’s Starship reaches space successfully
216. A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
217. New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
218. How to train your large language model
219. How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
220. Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
221. Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
222. A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
223. Physicists are reimagining dark matter
224. Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
225. A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
226. Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
227. AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
228. Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
229. The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
230. Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
231. Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
232. New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
233. For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
234. What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
235. A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
236. A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
237. The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
238. Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
239. NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
240. Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
241. How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
242. Why some whales can smell in stereo
243. AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
244. Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
245. Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
246. How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo
247. Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
248. Why AI needs to learn new languages
249. Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
250. Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
251. Common sense is not actually very common
252. The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
253. We’re hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
254. Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
256. Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology’s credibility crisis
257. Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
258. Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
259. The Economist’s science and technology internship
260. An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon lander on board
261. Vast amounts of the world’s shipping sails unseen
262. Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
263. A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
265. How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
266. Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
267. Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet
268. The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
269. Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
270. A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile
271. The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
272. Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
273. Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
274. Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
275. A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
276. Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
277. A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
278. SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
279. Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer’s?
280. New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
281. Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
282. How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
283. Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas’s tunnels
284. Microbiome treatments are taking off
285. A new gonorrhoea drug was developed by a non-profit foundation
286. Could AI help find valuable mineral deposits?
287. Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing
288. Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
289. AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by listening
290. China approves the world’s first flying taxi
291. What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
292. AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
293. It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
294. How to predict the outcome of a coin toss
295. Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
296. American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too
297. Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on
298. A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale
299. The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions of lives
300. Did bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?
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