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American materials chemist who won the Nobel prize for his role in the invention of the rechargeable lithium battery → Read More
A recent breakthrough in the race to create ‘synthetic’ embryos has sparked criticism. But the findings could be valuable in understanding miscarriages and genetic disorders → Read More
Recent breakthroughs have been wildly hyped – but there’s still reason to hope → Read More
The possibility of screening embryos for complex inherited traits will force society to profoundly rethink its reproductive ethics → Read More
Are they just fringe conspiracies—or could they be something more? → Read More
Some claim the rise in winter infections has been caused by the reduction of seasonal bugs during lockdowns. But experts are sceptical about these oversimplified explanations → Read More
Physical-collapse theories have long offered a natural solution to the central mystery of the quantum world. But a series of increasingly precise experiments are making them untenable. → Read More
If our experience is limited to our own bodies, how can we think about non-human minds? → Read More
The AI-based breakthrough, like the sequencing of the human genome, may not turbocharge the development of new drugs as some hope. But as a resource for basic biological research it will be valuable → Read More
Injected into countless arms around the world during Covid, mRNA vaccines are now being lined up to fight cancer and heart disease. So how far can this technology go? → Read More
Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds → Read More
The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of quantum information. → Read More
Quantum cryptography will define how we secure our data in the not-so-distant future → Read More
It’s politically convenient for the government to act like we can fully move on from Covid—but it would be disastrous → Read More
Authors critical of the government find it a struggle to be published in China without restrictions → Read More
The goal of a universal vaccine would have seemed a fantasy only a few years ago. But not now… → Read More
It is probable that all protective measures against coronavirus will be scrapped in England next week. It’s a decision that seems driven more by politics than science → Read More
Global heating has spurred some peculiar changes in plants and animals from the Caribbean to the Rockies → Read More
Debates about the human-like attributes of animals miss the point. Can we respect them regardless? → Read More
There will be no ‘victory’ or ‘armistice day’ – the reality of how pandemics end is far more complicated than that, says the science writer Philip Ball → Read More