Tag: science
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The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›
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Concrete is an excellent and versatile material, but it’s not without its limitations. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-developed-a-kind-of-living-concrete-that-heals-its-own-cracks?utm_source=semafor more ›
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Professor José R Penadés and his team at Imperial College London had spent years working out and proving why some superbugs are immune to antibiotics. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz6e9edy3o more ›
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Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been… more ›
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In early March, global investors turned their eyes toward Beijing, where 2,977 delegates from across China had gathered for the annual session of the National People’s Congress. Here, Chinese Premier… more ›
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In many ways, we are living in quite a wondrous time for AI, with every week bringing some awe-inspiring feat in yet another tacit knowledge task that we were sure… more ›
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Two things need to be said after reading The Anxious Generation. First, this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story… more ›
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Bee colonies are collapsing all over the world, threatening large parts of our food supply. But there’s good news in the fight to slow their decline: the U.S. government has… more ›
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Recently, the range of dishes available to Ceder’s robots has grown exponentially, thanks to an AI program developed by Google DeepMind. Called GNoME, the software was trained using data from… more ›