Too many satellites? Earth’s orbit is on track for a catastrophe – but we can stop it
On January 30 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for…
Amazon’s Ring wanted to track your pets. It revealed the future of surveillance
As a career counterintelligence officer for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Defense…
Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why
For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be…
To label or not to label?
The Canadian government’s recent approval of the first gene-edited animal to enter the food system…
After ‘code brown’, how long before the pool is safe again? Water quality experts explain
There’s little worse as a pool lifeguard than hearing the words “code brown” come through…
Is social media addictive? How it keeps you clicking and the harms it can cause
For years, big tech companies have placed the burden of managing screen time squarely on…
How do people know their interests? The shortest player in the NBA shows how self-belief matters more than biology
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued…
Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix
Publicly funded research underpins much of daily life, from policy decisions to innovation and public…
The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it
Scientific publishing relies on peer review as the mechanism that maintains trust in what we…