The Economist: Science and technology

Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating

Climate change is accelerating the blaze

Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation

They are being used to simulate everything from bodily organs to planet Earth

Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of ...

All it takes is very long radio waves

Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies

Some of its myriad components are being tested as treatments for cancer and othe...

The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon

It would be 1,000 times more accurate than today’s atomic timekeepers

New battery designs could lead to gains in power and ca...

Researchers are looking beyond the cathode

NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover

Never used, one previous owner

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains c...

For now, it is the most sophisticated connectome ever made

Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actuall...

Better tools are needed to analyse their effects

AI wins big at the Nobels

Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence...

Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive t...

Solutions include bendy propellers and “acoustic black holes”

SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival

The company’s successes are also showing up the agency’s failings

A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

Companies that bet on the right one could win big

There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps

The pay dirt could be 15 times richer than natural deposits

Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a...

It should, instead, be seen as a different way of being normal

The two types of human laugh

One is caused by tickling; the other by everything else

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