Machine language

The past few years have seen a spurt in AI tools that can write. Will future books be composed by computers? How does this development threaten …

Simply put: Engineers beware

Simply put: The missed Nobels

Presumed ideals

Any utopia, whether founded on reason or faith, contains the seeds of dystopia within

Swinging both ways

Early human ‘Lucy’ walked but was good at climbing trees too

Sound track of the earth

Seismic noise can help map our planet’s interiors

Lab on the lap

Indian scientists develop a low-cost, easy-to-use physics lab

Spin it like spider

Modified silkworms created to spin spider silk

What if Laki returns?

Scientists revisit one of the largest volcanic eruptions  

New space glue

Unlike other adhesives it becomes stickier in dry environments

Soil scan

Soil testing can help farmers decide on the right mix of fertilisers and maximise benefits

When the whales took to water

Fresh evidence supports a long-held belief that whales evolved from land mammals

Fresh lease

Switching speeds

Scientists develop a new switch to revolutionise fibre-opti techniques

Plastic ploys

Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers

Videshi works

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Muscle power

It's hot out there

Striking lasers

A semiconductor laser would enhance the performance of telecommunications

Explosions in outer space

Gamma-ray bursts occur daily and are million times brighter than the galaxy

Powerful eye

Quality soils

Unlike orbiters

All aboard for the Red Planet

In tiny specks

...is written the history of the Solar system's formation and life on the Earth