The Economist: Science and technology

A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Ama...

How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery

Are ice baths good for you?

They won’t hurt. Actually they might, a bit

Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper

Professional cycling is debating whether to ban the poisonous gas

Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spec...

Drone operators and jammers are in a high-tech arms race

Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky

The right sounds can also disable their cameras

Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of priva...

Their tools are software, and a nose for trouble

Does intermittent fasting work?

It does for weight loss. Its other supposed benefits are debatable

Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting chea...

A $6m LLM isn’t cool. A $6 one is

AI is being used to model football matches

The mathematics of network analysis helps them follow the action

How artificial intelligence is changing baseball

Moneyball enters its AI era

Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything

Plate tectonics could explain continental plateaus and mini mass extinctions

How the Trump administration wants to reshape American ...

The consequences will be felt around the world

Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?

What the early evidence suggests about the effect on students

Do better shoes help you run faster? 

Yes, but the benefits won’t last

Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available ...

The key is to fly very low indeed

The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new t...

Flexible drills, distributed power systems and, of course, artificial intelligence

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