Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality
15 May 2019
Dreams, a groundbreaking new Playstation 4 game, lets everyone build their own exciting worlds by playing at being a developer - only without all that coding
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Becoming a maker: How switches can bring you piping hot toast
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In part 3 of our maker series, Hannah Joshua shows how switches and buttons give you a lot more options for cool devices, like a toast notifier
Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?
15 May 2019
Doctors in the UK are concerned that it could follow the US into an opioid crisis, yet measures to prevent this could go too far and leave people in pain
Elon Musk's SpaceX or a superpower: Who'll win the new space race?
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Nations from the US to China and companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX are vying to leave Earth again. But why – and are we ready for a second space age?
NHS hospital to trial genetic analysis for blood pressure patients
14 May 2019
Around 100 people undergoing treatment for hypertension in the UK are to get their DNA analysed in a pioneering trial to see if genetic data can help healthcare
Free-floating DNA to reveal the health of river and lake ecosystems
14 May 2019
The mix of DNA floating in rivers and lakes will finally be used to monitor the state of aquatic ecosystems, after years of tests to prove the technique works
AI doesn't see the world like us which is why it is so easily confused
13 May 2019
AI can easily be fooled into mistaking a rifle for a turtle, but now we may have an explanation for why these blunders happen and how to stop them
Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes
13 May 2019
Forensic investigators may be able to use a suspicious stain’s microbiome to determine its origin, even after a month of being exposed to air
A simple experiment could help find alien life on Europa
12 May 2019
If we found amino acids on icy moons like Europa, it could be a sign of recent biological processes
Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power
11 May 2019
Seawater is full of far more uranium than we can mine from the ground, and specialised sponges could let us harvest it to use in nuclear power plants
