Can they keep improving forever

   Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media

   From pesticides to drones, new technologies are helping win an age old battle

   Alcohol and drugs kill many in the early days of freedom

   Collisions kill , every year

   Different colonies build in competing architectural styles

   From target hunting to catching sanctions busters, its war is increasingly high tech

   A special series of Babbage, our podcast on science and technology

   They would be able to grow, grip and move in more useful ways

   The cyber scare shows why the internet’s crowdsourced code is vulnerable

   Scientists are finding that anti obesity medicines can also help many other diseases

   The world must pay more attention to its southern pole

   Their techniques are passed down through the generations

   Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers

   Generations of breeding are to blame

   Football coaches should pay attention

   Though it failed to return to Earth, it’s a step nearer to the stars

   It would convert vocal cord movements into sound

   Machine learning algorithms could help bring it down

   A new technique is speeding up the process

   New technologies could provide water to Earth’s most arid climates

   A gene mutation slows the dogs’ metabolism and makes them constantly hungry

   It could help launch satellites

   AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate

   There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang

   They could be used to improve treatments in the womb

   All use different chemistries for cost or performance

   Vaccines and antivirals are already undergoing trials

   It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power

   The answer, according to neuroscience

   At five times the speed of sound, a craft flies through plasma, not air

   They would need radar to do it

   Finding similarities between post infectious illnesses could lead to better treatments

   The trick is to outsmart the immune system

   The organisms near a tea plant’s roots can influence the depth of flavour in its leaves

   Since the introduction of Hawk Eye, umpires have been biting their tongues

   The odds are stacked against it

   Its final run set a record for how much energy such reactions can produce

   At last, progress is being made on a condition that affects one woman in ten

   Chair and ball were among little AI’s first words

   It will monitor tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans

   The new techniques could help rediscover lost works from antiquity

   First person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines

   Designers are experimenting with tentacles, spikes and third thumbs

   Hallucinations, deepfakes and simple nonsense: there are plenty of risks

   One nostril is good. But two can be better

   Childhood treatment with contaminated human growth hormone may cause the disease years later

   A tale of elephants, thorn trees, and the sensitivity of ecosystems

   Altermagnets have been hiding in plain sight for years

   Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English