Cyborg tadpoles are helping us learn how brain development starts
uttu A tadpole, stained with immunofluorescence to visualise its internal anatomy, that had a brain-tracking device implanted in it…
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Destroyer of Worlds review: Frank Close’s new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age
Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric Joliot caught a glimpse of the neutron in their experiments Smith Archive/Alamy…
Inside Europe’s largest jellyfish farm
Pacific compass jellyfish (Chrysaora fuscescens) Heidi & Hans-Jürgen Koch These eerily beautiful images show animals born at Europe’s…
Trump’s cuts to NASA and the National Science Foundation will have huge consequences
Artemis I sits at Launch Pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center Tribune Content Agency LLC/Alamy The Stern-Gerlach experiment…
Does this new tent repel both water and the laws of physics?
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A woman’s body is a man’s world. Just ask an anatomist…
The #MeToo campaign against sexual abuse of women went viral in 2017. Soon after, women had what I’d…
Strangers and Intimates review: Are we killing off the idea of private life?
How private are our lives in a highly surveilled world? Jan Klos/Millennium Images, UK Strangers and IntimatesTiffany Jenkins…
The discovery that cancer hacks nerves could lead to fairer treatments
One of the biggest, yet often-overlooked, good news stories of the century so far is how many people…
Disney and Universal lawsuit may be killing blow in AI copyright wars
Minions are characters in films produced by Universal Pictures Cinematic/Alamy Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against…
Can any nation protect against a Ukraine-style drone smuggling attack?
An image taken by a Ukrainian drone during Operation Spiderweb UPI/Alamy On 1 June, Ukraine stunned the world…