The Economist: Science and technology

Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when ...

Their techniques are passed down through the generations

The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inm...

Alcohol and drugs kill many in the early days of freedom

Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions

Different colonies build in competing architectural styles

A promising technique could make blood types mutually c...

That would ease the demand for type-O donors

AI models can improve corner-kick tactics

Football coaches should pay attention

How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia

From target hunting to catching sanctions-busters, its war is increasingly high-...

The science that built the AI revolution

A special series of “Babbage”, our podcast on science and technology

New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding

Machine learning algorithms could help bring it down

A new generation of music-making algorithms is here

Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers

A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders...

It would convert vocal-cord movements into sound

Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedente...

They would need radar to do it

Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity

A gene mutation slows the dogs’ metabolism and makes them constantly hungry

A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death

AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate

New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes

The trick is to outsmart the immune system

Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treatin...

Vaccines and antivirals are already undergoing trials

Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real ...

The answer, according to neuroscience

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