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New technologies known as vehicle to grid may allow us to power our houses and save money at the same time.
Government algorithms threaten our right to hold politicians to account.
Technology exists that can verify if you’ve come into contact with an infected person without revealing your location or identity – governments just need to be willing to use it.
If it’s impossible to accurately predict the future then there may be limits to how smart artificial intelligence can become.
More than a century since humans learned to fly, we need to revolutionise how we stay up there.
People could be asked to prove their identity to continuing posting political content or adverts on Facebook.
Websites are trying to get around GDPR rules on giving you control over your data.
Encouraging people to buy LED bulbs is not a long-term solution. We need lighting which is kind to the planet and our health.
Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.
Being nostalgic about the past is linked to optimism about the future.
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” To understand the universe, we need more Mad Hatter mathematicians.
The risk smartphones pose to our memory is overblown, but they do get in the way of us making more detailed and authentic memories.
Technology can only go so far in making sense of our vast and intricate atmosphere.
On tablets and laptops, people are turning to ASMR videos to unwind in the digital age.
The moon is our closest neighbour and our best hope for building capacity to explore space.
Mosquitoes are picky about who they bite but it’s not actually “us” that they’re smelling when they choose their next meal…
Was Darwin inspired by the tropical wildlife of his travels to discover natural selection? Actually, pigeons, worms and barnacles were far more prominent in his thinking.
Megalodons are the latest Hollywood monster to leap out of the fossil record, but what else is lurking in prehistoric seas?
Strange frond-like sea creatures are among the planet’s earliest animals, but new research dates them and the entire animal kingdom to much earlier than first thought.
Every day we throw away plastic and every day we’re reminded of its environmental impact. Why can’t something be done about it?
Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.
High altitude images of Earth’s surface can illustrate events occurring on a grand scale to the public.
Cybersecurity is an increasingly relevant concern in our society, but pop culture tells us virtually nothing useful about it.
Scientists have never been more needed to challenge division, misinformation and harassment online.