-
'I'd never seen such an audacious attack on anonymity before': Clearview AI and the creepy tech that can identify you with a single picture"Concerns about facial recognition had been building for decades. And now the nebulous bogeyman had finally found its form: a small company with mysterious founders and an unfathomably large database."
artificial-intelligence -
'Lost in insignificance': Here's what it's like to rappel into the solar system's largest canyon"You wanted this moment to belong just to yourself and the landscape: sunset on the rim of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system."
space-exploration -
'An ancient, complex, and very serious game is going on': The weird ways creatures feed in the open oceanSea angels — a type of swimming slug — that live in the open ocean are carnivorous little creatures that have evolved to feed on sea snails.
rivers-oceans -
Three remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator that uses 'pincer, fork and key'In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.
spiders-arachnids -
'Enhancing' future generations with CRISPR is a road to a 'new eugenics,' says ethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson"Eugenics seeks to improve by eliminating the characteristics considered at a particular time and place to be disadvantages and to maximize those considered normal."
genetics -
3 remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the world's biggest seeds that were once mounted in gold by royals"Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was thought that male trees uprooted themselves on stormy nights and walked to find female trees, embracing them to pollinate their large flowers."
plants -
'If you can bench press a car, you are good to go': Inside the incredible bite-force of crocodilesIn this extract from "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans," Bill Schutt looks at the creatures with the strongest bite forces in the world.
alligators-crocodiles -
'As beautiful as pregnancy sounds, it also scares me': Author Layal Liverpool on the reality of racism in reproductive health careIn a new book, science journalist Layal Liverpool sheds light on pervasive, racialized inequities in health care, including in reproductive care.
reproductive-health -
'A force more powerful than gravity within the Earth': How magnetism locked itself inside our planet"As the magma cooled to form what is today the world's solid outer crust, magnetism was locked into minerals containing iron, such as magnetite."
physics-mathematics
