Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary A field trial of engineered sorghum is due to begin in eastern Australia; the plants have been edited to…
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says Summary The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster has overtaken Tokyo–Yokohama as the world’s leading innovation…
32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers
32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers Summary Steam’s August 2025 hardware survey shows a continuing shift in gamers’ memory configurations: 32GB systems reached 35.42%…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary This article reports on a large meta-analysis that maps DNA methylation changes across 17 human tissues…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) vehicles are moving from…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow optical-fibre design — described in Nature Photonics and developed by researchers from the University of Southampton…
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says Summary WIPO’s 2025 Global Innovation Index places the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster at the top of the world’s 100 leading innovation clusters,…
32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers
32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers Summary Steam’s August 2025 hardware survey shows a continuing shift in PC gaming memory configurations: 32GB systems rose…
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says Summary The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster has overtaken Tokyo–Yokohama as the world’s top innovation…
A mammoth toothache: world’s oldest bacterial DNA found in the mouths of mammoths
Summary An analysis of teeth, skulls and bone from 483 woolly and steppe mammoths has uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever sequenced — including a 1.1-million-year-old bacterial genome. Researchers…