Refrigerators and freezers typically get their cooling power from environmentally harmful fluidsMint Images Limited/Alamy A new type of crystal could enable refrigerators and air conditioners to keep us cool without warming the planet. Refrigerators and air conditioners get their cooling...
Artist’s rendering of the Stratos facility that is due to open in Texas1PointFive The world’s largest facility for removing carbon dioxide from the air is set to open in Texas in 2025, increasing the sector’s worldwide capacity by a factor...
Ncuti Gatwa returns for more adventures as the Fifteenth DoctorJames Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios If you live in a part of the world where January is a hardscrabble month of inclement weather, you might well be tempted to lock yourself away for the...
People with long covid are advised to pace themselves when it comes to being physically activeREUTERS/Nacho Doce For many people, the covid-19 pandemic feels like a thing of the past. But for those with long covid, it is far from...
Don’t call your favourite AI “doctor” just yetJust_Super/Getty Images Advanced artificial intelligence models score well on professional medical exams but still flunk one of the most crucial physician tasks: talking with patients to gather relevant medical information and deliver an...
January 2, 20255 min readNanotech Scientists Build on an Insect’s Odd Soccer Ball-Like Excretions to Design Ingenious CamouflageArtificial versions of nanoscale soccer-ball-like structures called brochosomes might be used to make new forms of military camouflage, self-cleaning surfaces or hydrogen fuelBy...
This rainbow pattern shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic InstrumentDESI Collaboration/KPNO/NOIRLab We think dark energy makes up most of the universe, but we have no idea what it actually is. In 2025, the Dark...
Yuan Zheng/FeatureChina via AP Images/Alamy Yes, it really has been five years. On 7 January 2020, we published an article with the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China”. By then, at least 59 people had been...
It has been just over five years since the beginning of covid-19 The coronavirus behind covid-19 has infected most people in the world, killing around 15 million people and leaving about 400 million individuals with long-term health problems. It also...
Joby Aviation is developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraftDavid Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Flying taxis may finally arrive this year, thanks to the development of a new breed of electric aircraft that are much quieter than...
