The Economist: Science and technology

Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing

Makers of Formula 1 cars and jet engines are leading the way

Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier

Flying on Elon Musk’s spaceship; sponsored by Doritos

Digital twins are making companies more efficient

They will also help them reap the benefits of advances in AI

New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the ...

The key is energy efficiency

Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days

The effect is small but consistent

A common food dye can make skin transparent

The discovery allows scientists to see inside live animals

Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk

They may one day replicate its benefits

Earth may once have had a planetary ring

It would have collapsed 450m years ago

How bush pigs saved Madagascar’s baobabs

Non-native species are not always harmful

Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power

Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough

China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans

Tweaks to software blunt the shortage of powerful hardware

Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recyc...

Mining for raw materials may peak by the mid-2030s

The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chines...

What genetic analysis of a 3,500-year-old sour goat’s cheese from Xinjiang reveals

New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines

Across Europe, nearly a quarter of water goes to waste

Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—...

Making treatment quick and affordable will be the challenge

Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic d...

The isolation can be geographic or cultural

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