The Ministry of Time review: Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller, part-romance
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Mind-reading AI turns paralysed man’s brainwaves into instant speech
A man with paralysis being connected to the brain-computer interface system Lisa E Howard/Maitreyee Wairagkar et al. 2025…
Cyborg tadpoles are helping us learn how brain development starts
A tadpole, stained with immunofluorescence to visualise its internal anatomy, that had a brain-tracking device implanted in it…
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
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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?
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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…