AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
SCIENTISTS LOOKING to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air cleanly and cheaply have long been interested in metal-organic...
Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths
FORGET THE elephant shrew—meet the mammoth mouse. On March 4th Colossal Biosciences, a company trying to revive long-gone spe...
Is posh moisturiser worth the money?
There is a tendency to trivialise the skin, says Peter Elias, a dermatologist at the University of California, San Francisco....
How artificial intelligence can make board games better
BOARD GAMES have long fascinated artificial-intelligence (AI) researchers. They have clear rules, well-defined playing fields...
The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies
Donald Trump’s quest for critical minerals has taken him from Greenland to Ukraine. He is not alone in wanting more metals, w...
Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone
It started with a tweet. In 2019, during his first term as president, Donald Trump posted a surveillance photo of an Iranian ...
Do better shoes help you run faster?
Modern competitive running entered a new era in 2016, when Nike began distributing a prototype trainer to elite runners. The ...
Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments calle...
How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science
THE ANNUAL meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science afford researchers a chance to show off what t...
New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
DNA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ancestors...