Fears of an AI bubble are rising CFOTO/Sipa USA/Alamy The hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI seem to have inflated a global financial bubble that’s now fit to burst, leaving companies and investors at risk of holding vast debt that cannot be serviced by the meagre revenue brought in by current AI…
This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. On one wall of endocrinologist Kevan Herold’s office hangs artwork by a girl who joined one of his type 1 diabetes trials when she was 11 years old. The girl was diagnosed…
All That We See or Seem is set in a near future filled with personal AIs Shutterstock/agsandrew All That We See or SeemKen Liu, Head of Zeus (UK); Saga Press (US) The latest novel by Ken Liu, All That We See or Seem, is the near-future story of the mysterious disappearance of a professional dream-weaver…
October 14, 2025 2 min read Type 1 Diabetes Science Is Having a Moment Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. Things are only getting better By Jeanna Bryner This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was…
Shutterstock/Candice Bell If you’ve ever stepped outside to find your newly planted flowerbeds dug up or your vegetable patch ravaged, you will know my pain. From curious foxes to marauding squirrels, the destruction wrought by garden mammals on lovingly nurtured plants can be enough to test the patience of even the most mild-mannered gardener. Hence…
October 14, 2025 4 min read The U.S. Won’t Win the New Space Race by Defunding NASA The U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without supporting NASA By The Editors In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use maritime…
“A government might start using its digital ID in more invasive ways than originally promised…” da-kuk/Getty Images The first ID card I ever had was the flimsy piece of laminated paper that made up my driver’s license. In the US, a driver’s license includes a photo, biometric information (eye colour, height, etc.) and birthdate. This…
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute explores the science behind major questions on food and health — from the addictive potential of ultraprocessed foods to the high-protein diet craze to the drawbacks of keto.
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Did these cool creatures pull off the ultimate power play by domesticating themselves? Eman Kazemi/Alamy Cat Tales: A historyJerry D. Moore, Thames & Hudson Over the course of a weekend, I once saw one of my family’s cats, a Byronic individual named Solomon, maul my sister under the guise of play, throw up on my bedsheets…
