The Download: greener cement, and the biggest tech stories of 2023
+ The worst technology failures of 2023. The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise…
Revitalising legacy skincare ingredients: A guide for beauty brands
Consumers still believe in tried-and-tested ingredients, with niacinamide and hyaluronic acid…
How electricity could help tackle a surprising climate villain
Cement hides in plain sight—it’s used to build everything from roads and buildings to dams and basement floors.…
The race is on to save coral reefs–by freezing them
Hagedorn and her collaborators have been able to cryopreserve larvae since 2018, but the process was finicky,…
The Download: solving the mystery of hunger, and the climate-tech boom
When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon. It awakens the most ancient and primitive parts of the brain,…
We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change.
“Sure, we managed to have the brain say ‘Go eat,’” he says. “But that’s not really an explanation. How does…
Supporting women’s health: PCOS, pregnancy and menopause
The modern woman is more empowered than the ones who lived centuries ago. However, many ways…
How machine learning might improve earthquake prediction
Instances of regular intervals between earthquakes of similar magnitudes have been noted in other places,…
We need a moonshot for computing
None of these potential technologies are new: researchers have been working on them for many years, and quantum…
A high tech mouthguard that might help prevent concussions
Appreciation of the real risks of head injuries has been a long time coming. “Even 10 years ago, if someone took…