Microbiome treatments are taking off
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In a small laboratory at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London, Désirée Prossomariti is processing donations. Each is weighed,…
Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas’s tunnels
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. The “Gaza metro” is nothing if not formidable. The network of tunnels built by Hamas beneath the enclave is hundreds…
How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Launched in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the fastest sailing ship of its time. These days the clipper is a…
Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. New species are generally found rather than awakened. And they are typically discovered in remote places like rainforests or Antarctic…
New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. How might science be done on an alien planet? Since the laws of nature are the same everywhere, the aliens…
Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer’s?
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. ONE OF THE first signs of Alzheimer’s disease is confusion. Most people can park their car in a different space…
SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. IN THE 21 years since it was founded, SpaceX, a rocketry firm set up by Elon Musk, has become the…
A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Artificial-intelligence (AI) models are modern oracles. The neural networks that power them are flexible mathematical tools, capable of finding any…
Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. WHAT A DIFFERENCE a decade makes. That, roughly, is how often the Open Science Conference, run by the World Climate…
A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Crystals can do all sorts of things, some more useful than others. They can separate the gullible from their money…