The Economist: Science and technology

Scientists have published an atlas of the brain

Cataloguing its components may help understand how it works

How to predict the outcome of a coin toss

Coins are fair. Their tossers, less so

It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere

Like bacteria, the insects are becoming resistant to the chemicals used to kill ...

What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 y...

Like ice cores, stalagmites preserve a long record of the climate

AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts

Computers could let archaeologists read hundreds of burnt scrolls from a Roman l...

AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by liste...

That could help check whether reforestation projects work as advertised

Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the r...

Embryoids promise many benefits, but pose tricky ethical questions

China approves the world’s first flying taxi

EHang could soon take passengers on pilotless joyrides over Guangzhou

Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative ...

Unlike lithium, sodium is cheap and abundant

The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions...

Besides mRNA vaccines, they celebrate ultra-fast lasers and tiny prisons for light

Microbiome treatments are taking off

Faecal transplants are just the start of a new sort of medicine

Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and length...

A technique that may create a new field of medicine

Is red meat unhealthy?

Overdoing it could give you heart disease or cancer

Can Musk put people on Mars?

Whether successful or not, his attempt to do so will reshape America’s space pro...

Can Musk put man on Mars?

Whether successful or not, his attempt to do so will reshape America’s space pro...

Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines

The sound of their engines will not travel as far

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