We're getting better at diagnosing diseases, such as Alzheimer's, that still have no cure. But as diagnoses creep forward, we're left facing a new set of ethical dilemmas | Continue reading
Turns out meal replacement drinks are actually no replacement for meals | Continue reading
"We understand now that the arts and sciences are the subjective and objective poles of the same great human enterprise, that there is only one world out there and we have to view it with an ever-curious and ever broadening mind" | Continue reading
“Counting fake news exposure is like counting people in a fun house” | Continue reading
Broadcasters and rights holders are in a constant battle to eliminate illegal live football streams. Reddit’s r/soccerstreams may have been removed from the web but there’s more sophisticated tech involved | Continue reading
James Dyson may be a leading Brexiteer, but moving the Dyson HQ to Singapore is complicated. UK skill shortages, tax breaks, and other incentives will have made the upheaval appealing | Continue reading
The science is clear: sitting and sedentary lifestyles can lead to heart disease. The standing desk has benefits but we may be focusing on the wrong problem | Continue reading
China's social credit system isn't a world first but when it's complete it will be unique. The system isn't just as simple as everyone being given a score though | Continue reading
Data has powered the artificial intelligence revolution. Now security experts are uncovering worrying ways in which AIs can be hacked to go rogue | Continue reading
It's simpler and it's flatter – and Slack's new logo follows a well-trodden path of startups finally realising the importance of elegant design | Continue reading
China’s Chang’E-4 lander delivers another first: it’s growing plants on the far side of the Moon | Continue reading
Investor enthusiasm for AI will wane with the first big failures – and it will be up to the industry to redefine the problems it is trying to solve | Continue reading
A flurry of Cubesat launches is already changing economic forecasting. In the near future, it could have an even more profound impact | Continue reading
We need to begin a serious debate about whether artificially evolved humans are our future, and if we should put an end to these experiments before it is too late | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence isn't yet discerning enough to intervene in the bot war damaging our democracy | Continue reading
Heathrow handles 475,000 planes every year, but the pressure is on to squeeze in even more landings. Getting that right – and doing so safely – is a precise science | Continue reading
The numbers suggest otherwise, but Snap is struggling. What’s happening to CEO Evan Spiegel fits a pattern – ranging from Tesla to Google. Is it a bad case of founder’s syndrome? | Continue reading
Deep sea mining promises to deliver the minerals we need to power our green energy future. But the environmental risk is enormous | Continue reading
Rolex watches have survived missions to the very bottom of the Pacific Ocean. This is how the company tests 800,000 watches a year without leaving Geneva | Continue reading
As the world grapples with the first gene-edited babies, questions are being raised about where we go next. | Continue reading
Together with Google Arts & Culture, British choreographer Wayne McGregor developed an AI capable of predicting dance moves in his particular style. | Continue reading
The first traffic light appeared in London 150 years ago. Now Transport for London is increasing automation, redesigning crossings and experimenting with giving pedestrians right of way | Continue reading
The final line of defence against dodgy crowdfunding campaigns could be 90,000 Redditors | Continue reading
AI researcher Sandra Wachter is using "counterfactual explanations" to reveal how algorithms come to their decisions – without breaking into their black box | Continue reading
BMW can now produce internal combustion engine vehicles, plug-in hybrids and pure EVs using the same basic architecture, all on the same production line | Continue reading
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless | Continue reading
After years of corruption, the 2018 World Chess Championship in London is taking place under new leadership – and with it comes increased scrutiny | Continue reading
The strange low-frequency sound recorded across the Pacific in 1997 has turned out to be an icequake, despite rumours it was the distant rumble of Cthulhu awakening | Continue reading
The UK government's bulk interception of data was against human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. It's another surveillance loss for the government | Continue reading
Snowden and Cambridge Analytica have put France off Silicon Valley giants. It's a change of heart that could have global ramifications | Continue reading
They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare | Continue reading
Data brokers know plenty about you – they also sell make money from collecting, processing and trading personal information. Now GDPR complaints have been filed against them all around Europe | Continue reading
When Barclays found Graham digging around inside its banking app, he got shut down. His concern? That banks don't believe in opening up their data vaults | Continue reading
Add this to logic puzzles, human speech repetition and nonvocal signals as things ravens can do | Continue reading
The Bristol-based Small Robot Company has created a series of agile robots for farming. By being customisable they could help to replace the tractor | Continue reading
Researchers from the Blue Brain Project are bringing us closer to understanding the brain | Continue reading
EU plans look likely to end daylight savings times in 2019. This means that Sunday's clock change could be the last and the science and economics of the proposed change make complete sense | Continue reading
As the world wakes to the environmental cost of cryptocurrency mining, an Icelandic hobbyist has stumbled upon a green alternative | Continue reading
The London-based venture capital firm has brought a European outlook to Silicon Valley – and its investments reveal a remarkable success rate | Continue reading
Before Donald Trump, Neil deGrasse Tyson had his own idea of a space force – but he thinks it should tackle a few different issues | Continue reading
Affordable office space and a community feel have helped Canada’s second-largest city develop into a thriving AI hotspot | Continue reading
The world's most popular fruit is facing extinction, and scientists are racing to use gene-editing to save it. To succeed, they'll need to overcome an even bigger problem: opposition to GMO crops | Continue reading
Patrick and John Collison have democratised online payments – and reshaped the digital economy in the process | Continue reading
Julia Shaw uses science to prove that some memories are false. Now she's tackling criminal-justice failures | Continue reading
Think the first words spoken by a human on the surface of Mars will be in English? Think again | Continue reading
It’s the biggest puzzle in science: we see only five per cent of all matter. This is the epic tale of the unending hunt for dark matter | Continue reading
With Article 13 of the Copyright Directive, the EU Parliament wanted to give a sop to big media corporations. This will backfire horribly | Continue reading
It’s a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from Earth’s problems. It's time to reframe how we talk about future Mars colonies | Continue reading