The first flight of a fully electric commercial aircraft took place yesterday around Vancouver, Canada. | Continue reading
Offshore tests by a startup seek to lengthen people’s telomeres—and their lives. | Continue reading
The unpublished research paper by He Jiankui about the creation of the babies shows proof of attempted gene editing gone awry. | Continue reading
A new generation of specialized hardware could make drug development and material discovery orders of magnitude faster. | Continue reading
Chips made with nanotube transistors, which could be five times faster, should be ready around 2020, says IBM. | Continue reading
Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and who actually wrote them. | Continue reading
We tend to think of children as blindly trusting of whatever information comes their way. They’re not. | Continue reading
Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need. | Continue reading
Keeping software alive for just a few years without constant updates and overhauls might seem nearly impossible. But some software systems remain in fine fettle decades after their launch. | Continue reading
Trust us, it’s for science. | Continue reading
He Jiankui’s manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana. | Continue reading
The news: Russia’s government has confirmed plans to set up an online version of its national encyclopedia, after President Vladimir Putin said last month that Wikipedia is “unreliable” and should be replaced. | Continue reading
The news: Customers in China who buy SIM cards or register new mobile-phone services must have their faces scanned under a new law that came into effect yesterday. | Continue reading
A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics warns that kids’ literacy and language skills suffer with screen use, and MRI scans of their brains appear to back up the findings.The study: Forty-seven 3- to 5-year-olds took a test to measure their cognitive abilities, and their paren … | Continue reading
Human rights abuse and a decimated reputation killed Hacking Team. The new owners want to build a renewed surveillance empire. | Continue reading
There's potentially billions of dollars to be made. | Continue reading
The world’s leading surveillance and spyware companies gathered in Paris to meet growing demand from governments around the world. | Continue reading
Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross has launched a new solar thermal venture, designed to cut climate emissions from industrial heat. | Continue reading
Your space questions, answered. | Continue reading
An MIT analysis finds that steady declines in battery costs will stall in the next few years. | Continue reading
The news: Governments worldwide are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and spy on citizens, think tank Freedom House has warned in its latest report. | Continue reading
Regulators need to pay more attention to controlling CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, says Jennifer Doudna.One year on: Doudna, a University of California biochemist who helped invent CRISPR technology in 2012, wrote an editorial in Science yesterday titled “CRISPR’s … | Continue reading
Goldman Sachs defended itself in the Apple Card scandal by saying it did not consider gender when calculating creditworthiness. If it did, that could actually mitigate the problem. | Continue reading
A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers. | Continue reading
A fog of micro-debris poses major risks to satellites and spaceships—and this test suggests there is a lot more of it than anyone had thought | Continue reading
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it? | Continue reading
The oldest technology for detecting trace amounts of materials remains the best. | Continue reading
Feynman diagrams revolutionized particle physics. Now mathematicians want to do the same for vector calculus. | Continue reading
An updated analysis from OpenAI shows how dramatically the need for computational resources has increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. | Continue reading
Academic advances suggest that the encryption systems that secure online communications could be undermined in just a few years. | Continue reading
The news: A Florida detective was granted a warrant to access and search the nearly one million people’s genetic information held by consumer DNA site GEDmatch, even if users had opted out of appearing in police search results, according to the New York Times. | Continue reading
Physicists have watched a chain of 15 amino acids interfere with itself, in an experiment that paves the way for a new era of quantum biology. | Continue reading
The DNA test claims to let prospective parents weed out IVF embryos with a high risk of disease or low intelligence. | Continue reading
From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth. | Continue reading
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need. | Continue reading
As soon as the power turns on, hackers can gain an advantage. | Continue reading
A single Bitcoin holder—called a “whale” in cryptocurrency parlance—likely manipulated the market and helped fuel the big rise in Bitcoin’s price in 2017, according to researchers. | Continue reading
Machine learning can map which musical qualities trigger what types of physical and emotional responses. One day the technique could even be used in music therapy. | Continue reading
The internet of things connects devices across the globe. Now researchers are considering how bacteria can join the network. | Continue reading
Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first. | Continue reading
Here’s how spies could use a crowdsourced genetic ancestry service to compromise your privacy—even if you’re not a member. | Continue reading
Astronomers have found evidence that 2I/Borisov, the interstellar comet discovered in late August, may contain water. | Continue reading
The nation asked its major utility to make plans for six huge reactors. | Continue reading
Russian government-sponsored hackers have carried out a series of cyberattacks against organizations involved in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. | Continue reading
Princeton researchers found that far more people are living closer to the ocean than previously believed. | Continue reading
One of the most powerful tech firms on earth takes on the Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group. | Continue reading
We will soon learn if a much-hyped, rapamycin-like drug can boost the immune response by targeting how the body ages. | Continue reading
Contrary to what you’ve heard, a study from the Oxford Internet Institute says screen time is actually good for kids. | Continue reading