Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium Unlike lithium, sodium is cheap and abundant ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon Elon Musk's Starlink business could soon be competing with Jeff Bezos's Kuiper ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too That will be bad for both countries ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer's? Some scientists think so. Others doubt the cells even exist ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea One way to fix an accidentally altered climate is to alter it again deliberately ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy It will be the world's biggest optical telescope by far--and a powerful time machine ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
How to predict the outcome of a coin toss Coins are fair. Their tossers, less so ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing Embryoids promise many benefits, but pose tricky ethical questions ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day But only for four seconds at a time ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share
Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on One insect's leavings is another's dinner ... $$ economist.com economist.com / feeds economist-com-science-and-technology / / #technology / / 27 days 27d Share