The Economist: Science and technology

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

The isolation can be geographic or cultural

A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA

These tiny molecules regulate genes and control how cells develop and behave

AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics

The award, to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, stretches the definition of the...

Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel...

The award honours protein design and the use of AI for protein-structure prediction

Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish

Medaka catch rides on obliging birds, confirming one of Darwin’s hunches

Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?

A spacecraft heading to Europa is designed to find out

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary

If SpaceX can land and reuse the most powerful rocket ever made what can’t it do?

Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-...

The conditions are hot, sulphurous and low in oxygen

Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar p...

Their efficiency rates far exceed those of conventional silicon panels

The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes

Such techniques have helped secure two convictions this year

Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk

They can guzzle extreme amounts for their size, without suffering ill effects

Winemakers are building grape-picking robots

Automating this delicate task is harder than it seems

Space may be worse for humans than thought

Why going into orbit sends cells haywire

Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables

Inbuilt lenses transmit sunlight to symbiotic algae

Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo

The problem of variable buoyancy is being overcome

China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid

It will be only the second country to conduct such a planetary defence experiment

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