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Ukrainian servicemen prepare a drone for launch

Technology

Nations and big tech to train AI using ‘gold dust’ data from Ukraine

Foreign states and technology firms are scrambling for data from the Ukraine war so they can train the next-generation of AI models that might be used in defence and national security

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Esper Hand retopology

Health

How Ukraine created world-leading prostheses amid the chaos of war

Features

Technology

The engineer racing to run the world’s most dangerous algorithm

Features

Mathematics

Why mathematician Terence Tao thinks AI must spark a rapid revolution 

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Technology

Could a new approach to AI finally deliver artificial general intelligence?

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Technology

The ancient Silk Road city that has a lesson for Silicon Valley

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Hellisheidi geothermal power station in Hengill, Iceland. Steam billows out of tall towers, next to a small non-descript warehouse. Pipes come out of the ground. The entire facility is surrounded by wild Icelandic mountains

Environment

How to unlock unlimited geothermal energy, anywhere we want

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Technology

Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears

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Technology

Technology is changing our perspective on nature – at every scale

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White shirt material being cleaned

Space

Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma

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Technology

The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

Culture

Health

Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Mind

What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

Culture