The science fiction science method Summary This Nature piece describes the “sci‑fi‑sci” method: using science fiction or designed future scenarios as experimental stimuli to generate empirical evidence about how people,…
Google Will Now Let You Pick Your Top Sources For Search Results Summary Google is rolling out a new “Preferred Sources” feature in the US and India that lets users…
Microsoft Releases Lightweight Office Taskbar Apps for Windows 11 Summary Microsoft has started rolling out lightweight “Microsoft 365 companion apps” for Windows 11 aimed at business Microsoft 365 users. These…
Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight Summary IBM and Google say the first “workable” industrial-scale quantum computer — on the order of one million physical…
World’s first artificial tongue ‘tastes and learns’ like a real human organ Summary Scientists have built an artificial tongue that senses and identifies flavours entirely in liquid, using ultra-thin graphene…
Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care Summary This editorial marks 50 years since Georges Köhler and César Milstein’s 1975 Nature paper that described the hybridoma method for producing…
Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes Summary This Nature preview reports a new, catalytic enantioselective method to make alkylidenecyclopropanes (ACPs) — small, strained carbocycles that are valuable precursors to chiral cyclopropanes…
Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable Summary Organ-on-a-chip technology uses microfluidic devices to culture human cells in ways that better mimic physiology than standard dish cultures. In…
The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business Summary Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is evolving from paper maps into a data-first national mapping organisation. CTO…
Viennese virtualisation veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4 Summary Proxmox has published Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0 and Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) 4.0, both built on Debian…
