Covid variant tracking
Among all the nose swabs that have ever come up positive for covid-19 over the…
Carbon removal factory
In September, Climeworks flipped the switch on Orca, the largest plant to date that is…
Malaria vaccine
The malaria parasite, a notoriously deadly foe, has evolved countless ways to evade immune detection…
Synthetic data for AI
Last year, researchers at Data Science Nigeria noted that engineers looking to train computer-vision algorithms…
Long-lasting grid battery
For a few seconds on a sunny afternoon last April, renewables broke a record for…
Proof of stake
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin use huge amounts of electricity. In 2021, the Bitcoin network consumed…
AI for protein folding
By the end of 2020, DeepMind, the UK-based artificial-intelligence lab, had already produced many impressive…
The end of passwords
In the early 1960s, MIT professor Fernando Corbató was developing a new kind of shared…
From the archives: How we covered fusion power
January 1972 From “The Quest for Fusion Power”: In the case of fusion power, the…