Â鶹´«Ã½

News

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Health

Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely

A beam of radioactive carbon ions has been used to destroy cancer cells in mice, demonstrating a therapy that may cause less collateral damage than current techniques

News
Egyptian mosquito

Health

CBD shows promise as pesticide for mosquitoes

News
The map of the immune system, with each dot representing an immune cell and dots of the same colour belonging to the same cell type

Health

Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

News

Technology

Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea

News

Life

Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

News

Environment

Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night

News

Technology

What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it

News

Space

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

News

Life

These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

News
Two versions of the same picture, one altered by AI

Technology

AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or generate video to remove unwanted objects or beautify scenes, but doing so leads to people misremembering what they have seen

News

Environment

Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest

News

Space

Planet in the ‘forbidden zone’ of dead star could reveal Earth’s fate

News

Health

How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

News

Society

We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition

News