Sharon Peacock, the microbiologist who pioneered Britain’s genomics sequencing effort in the pandemic, talks about why sequencing still matters.
Technology & Ideas
Technology & Ideas
Silly clothes and eccentric traditions link the past to the present and future and build unity and continuity in an era of polarization and change.
Industry analyst Matt Navarra says Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram will face challenges in copying the short-form video format pioneered by the China-owned social-media site.
America’s national security might depend on it.
Cases of a rare virus related to smallpox have been reported in the US, UK, Canada and Spain. Here’s what we know.
A new Australian study that may have identified a biological mechanism highlights the need to make sudden infant death syndrome a greater priority in medical research.
Terrible results from Tencent may count less than what executives had to say about the crackdown and the Chinese economy.
It’s a symptom of our broad and deepening struggle to focus on real problems.
Popular in Opinion
Brooke Sample
Walmart’s Troubles Should Have Everyone on High Alert
Being thrifty doesn’t help much when inflation is putting the squeeze on everyone.
Lara Williams
Now’s the Time to Take That European Vacation
A weakened euro is bringing dream getaways a lot closer to reality for Americans.
Niall Ferguson
America, China, Russia and the Avalanche of History
The world doesn’t move in cycles or with a grand design. Echoes of the 1970s remind us that one disaster often begets others.
There are a number of theories to explain the increase in cases. So far, the evidence is scant for any of them.
The Buffalo shooter’s ability to amplify racist ideas on mainstream social media shows how much lawmakers and tech firms must still do to fight extremism.
Both auto magnates built dominant companies. Both became global celebrities. Both dove headlong into other pursuits. One lost his edge. So far.
It may help vaccinated people fight future infections, but not forever. And it’s no help to the unvaccinated.
The open tabs on your web browser are a window into your personal and professional interests and obsessions.
Unvaccinated people who got Covid last winter have little protection from reinfection, and even vaccinated people might be vulnerable after only a few months.
It transmits our locations and browsing habits 70 billion times a day to advertisers amid trillions a year by other firms, a new report shows.
Global warming is upending natural habitats, unleashing new plagues on humankind.
Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, has fascinated cosmologists for years. Now we’ve got pics.
It’s not helping that traditional markets are dealing with heavy losses, too.
The billionaire wavers on his proposed purchase, probably because his pockets are feeling a little lighter.
When it comes to thinking about the trade-offs of environmental policy, US politics is failing.
More than two years into the pandemic, the public health establishment still hasn’t designed effective mandates or given people the information they need to calculate risk.
Human waste could be a huge source of agricultural nutrients as the costs of synthetics soar. All it would take are improvements in sewage treatment and some big changes in attitudes.
Hunger caused by the Ukraine war is one more uncomfortable symptom of the world’s refusal to adopt more sustainable agriculture policies and plant-based diets.
To clean up dirty sectors such as cement, big emerging nations are going to need money and innovative technology from Western multinationals.
Grand promises that the technology could transform healthcare have struggled to bear fruit, with plenty of patient data collected in the meantime.
A botched word substitution added complexity to a simple game, put politics into an innocent one and spoiled the social cohesion that players cherish.
Farmers are clamoring for chicken and livestock waste to give their crops and soil a healthier nutrient boost as chemical-based products become unaffordable.
Requiring government computers to be sourced locally probably will boost domestic sales, but it won’t do much to spur development of advanced technologies.
Congress should embrace a proposed $4 billion-plus project for the discoveries it will make possible and to inspire a new generation of world-leading space scientists.
Chinese consumers are falling out of love with their super apps.
The shock and awe that accompanied CATL’s earnings was overly dramatic. Investors need to come to terms with what it takes to build EVs.
Facebook, Netflix, Zoom and others are suffering in the markets as investors reassess their lockdown darlings. But they will rise again.
Global warming isn’t just hard for humans and animals. It’s wreaking havoc on plants, too.
