The Economist: Science and technology

Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and mu...

Ideas for making money in orbit that seemed mad in the 1960s now look sane

Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed t...

Implanted electrodes allowed one man to climb stairs unaided

Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportiona...

The industry is failing to make itself greener

AI can bring back a person’s own voice

And it can generate sentences trained on their own writing

Machine translation is almost a solved problem

But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunt...

Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event m...

The mystery of exactly how people left Africa deepens

Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role

Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom...

Survival is a case of child’s play

Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humaniti...

We analyse two centuries of scholarly work

Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?

After 25 years, Blue Origin finally heads to orbit, and hopes to become a conten...

Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis

There is growing evidence that it can help with pain, depression and more

New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s a...

It could sniff out blazes long before they spread out of control

Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last

Trials are under way against skin, brain and lung tumours

How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science

A stronger R&D base, they hope, will transform their countries’ economies. Will ...

Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

Eventually, models could be trained without any dedicated hardware at all

Does melatonin work for jet lag?

It can help. But it depends where you’re going

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