The Economist: Science and technology

Physicists are reimagining dark matter

There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang

Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable

Both detection software and watermarks can be defeated

Common sense is not actually very common

Very few claims meet with universal agreement

Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medi...

Childhood treatment with contaminated human growth hormone may cause the disease...

How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo

A tale of elephants, thorn trees, and the sensitivity of ecosystems

For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria

The organisms near a tea plant’s roots can influence the depth of flavour in its...

Why AI needs to learn new languages

Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English

A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style

Its final run set a record for how much energy such reactions can produce

The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives

Most of America’s existing ones date from the second world war

2023 was the hottest year ever

And 2024 could be warmer still

Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology’s credibility crisis

Her new job editing the field’s most prestigious journal should help

An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon la...

Private firms are on the way to putting a man back on the lunar surface

Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned r...

Their new technique could make the routine cloning of primates easier

How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun

...and how listening to its return helped prepare them for Venus

Vast amounts of the world’s shipping sails unseen

New AI tools could help to eradicate blind spots on the oceans

Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial acci...

What lies beneath a Louisiana lake

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