The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere
1 May 2019
Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first satellites are already up - but do we really want it?
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Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI
26 September 2018
We can now decode dreams and recreate images of faces people have seen, and everyone from Facebook to Elon Musk wants a piece of this mind reading reality
Bees aren't just smart, they're sensitive too
6 June 2018
Far from being mindless pollen-collecting drones, bees can solve problems, make choices and have reactions that look suspiciously like human emotions
Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life
4 April 2018
A new plan to sequence all Earth's animals and plants could lead to medical and material advances that dwarf even what the Human Genome Project has achieved
The new nuclear race: Why North Korea isn’t the real story
20 September 2017
The sabre-rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence – making nuclear war by accident a real possibility
Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks
9 August 2017
If you can't restart a stopped heart within 5 minutes, brain damage starts. But using the lungs as a heat exchanger to chill the blood may buy us more time
Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives
26 July 2017
Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars
Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head
7 June 2017
We have nature reserves on land and at sea, but the sky has never been considered a habitat, let alone one worth preserving, until now
Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs
24 May 2017
If there's truth in cold war claims about tracking subs, it would rewrite our theories of turbulence and foil our nuclear deterrent
Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts
17 May 2017
A new wind atlas will help turbines avoid the doldrums – and solve some of wind's enduring mysteries
