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The learning is done by software models called artificial neural networks .(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing

6 min read . 27 May 2023

E-sports are a national obsession in South Korea

The rise and rise of e-sports

3 min read . 26 May 2023

On Ukraine, China has played an awkward hand ruthlessly and well (Photo: Reuters)

The world according to Xi

5 min read . 26 May 2023

The prospect of a windfall for South Korea’s chipmakers is complicated by the country’s blend of American and Chinese interests (Photo: Bloomberg)

Asian businesses are being dragged into the chip war

2 min read . 26 May 2023

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie promoting the movie Barbie in Las Vegas on April 25 (Photo: Reuters)

What Barbie tells you about near-shoring

5 min read . 26 May 2023

A battle between Carl Icahn, a prominent activist, and Illumina, a genomics giant, is set to come to a head on May 25th (Photo: Bloomberg)

Activist investors are needed more than ever

2 min read . 25 May 2023

The rising possibility of ultra-powerful AI raises the question of what would be left for humans when it arrives (Photo: Reuters)

What would humans do in a world of super-AI?

9 min read . 25 May 2023

Under the plans, Britain will co-design and build a next-generation submarine with Australia (Photo: AP)

The AUKUS pact is a model for Western allies

3 min read . 25 May 2023

Presidential primaries are often popularity contests more than they are policy debates — and this one will be little different (Photo: AP)

Ron DeSantis has little chance of beating Donald Trump

14 min read . 25 May 2023

The supermarket is the site of Rishi Sunak’s biggest achievement and worst headaches (Photo: AFP)

Thatcher, Sunak and the politics of the supermarket

5 min read . 24 May 2023

China’s reluctance to divulge information has complicated the understanding of exactly what happened in the early days of the covid outbreak

Where did covid-19 come from?

3 min read . 24 May 2023

Cheap gene sequencing allows scientists to harvest “environmental DNA” from soil, sand, water and the like, and use it to keep track of which species are living where, including humans

Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go

3 min read . 24 May 2023

The famous hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in California (Photo: iStock)

In America climate hawks and Big Oil alike cheer geothermal energy

5 min read . 24 May 2023

Around 2,500 American troops remain in Iraq today (Photo: Getty Images)

How the Iraq war bent America’s army out of shape

6 min read . 24 May 2023

Donald Glover, a famous musician and screenwriter, may well be drawing on his own experience of life in the public eye (Photo: Reuters)

“Swarm” asks whether online fan culture has gone too far

3 min read . 23 May 2023

Richie Benaud was considered the voice of cricket in Australia; Harsha Bhogle currently has that honour in India (Photo: Getty Images)

Commentators are underrated sporting heroes

4 min read . 23 May 2023

Russia now sends small packets of “disposable” infantry, a handful of men at a time, often under the influence of amphetamines, to “skirmish… until killed” (Photo: AFP)

Russia’s army is learning on the battlefield

5 min read . 23 May 2023

Natural comets are space-going balls of rock and ice in highly elliptical orbits

Artists hope to turn selfies into comets

3 min read . 22 May 2023

Estimating the overall effects of remittances on growth is tricky (Photo: iStock)

How remittances affect a country’s development

2 min read . 22 May 2023

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for deceiving investors (Photo: AP)

A forensic-accounting expert on how to treat the fraud epidemic

5 min read . 22 May 2023

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