US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforests By Madeleine…
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by Matthew Sparkes Careful observation of the power consumption of a circuit board can reveal telltale signs that an attacker has tampered with it and…
By Matthew Sparkes The second largest bitcoin mining nation in the world has cut off internet access, slashing the amount of computing power dedicated to…
By Clare Wilson Piping an oxygen-rich liquid through the anus could be a life-saver. A new treatment for failing lungs that involves such a process has…
By Adam Vaughan Around 1.2 million tonnes of water contaminated by radioactive substances from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster will be dumped in the Pacific Ocean, as part…
By Timothy Revell Beyond the headline breakthroughs, artificial intelligence is a global industrial complex. Having explored its political and social implications, Kate Crawford at Microsoft Research is now…
By Gege Li This amazing photograph was taken by James Crombie in Ireland. It shows a murmuration of thousands of starlings acting like a single giant…
By Carlo Rovelli We can grasp the truth about the quantum world, says physicist Carlo Rovelli – as long as we abandon our most cherished assumption about what’s…
By Will Gater More than 300 grams of meteorite fragments have been found in and around the English town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, after a dazzling…
On the hunt for explosives. Baranidharan Raman/Washington University in St. Louis. Move over, sniffer dogs: now there are explosive-sensing grasshoppers. Barani Raman and his…