A second, better, vaccine against covid-19 arrives
And there are surely more to comeNov 17th 2020WAITING FOR a breakthrough in the fight against covid-19 has been a bit like waiting…
Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots
Nov 15th 2020CLASSIC DOGFIGHTS, in which two pilots match wits and machines to shoot down their opponent with well-aimed gunfire,…
Fast tests for covid-19 are coming
Nov 14th 2020Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter….
Better disposable coffee cups
Nov 14th 2020SUGAR CANE contains around 10% sugar. But that means it contains around 90% non-sugar—the material known as bagasse…
Is there really phosphine on Venus?
Nov 14th 2020EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS require extraordinary evidence. So goes the dictum, usually credited to Carl Sagan, a celebrated…
Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s vaccine is the start of the end of the pandemic
Nov 9th 2020DURING THIS coronavirus-blighted year, through many difficult days of isolation and fear, the world has hoped for…
How to hybridise batteries and supercapacitors
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Female stone-age hunters
Nov 5th 2020THIS COLLECTION of stone tools from Peru upsets the idea that, in the ancient world of hunter-gatherers, it was men…
Can you generate a magnetic field remotely?
Nov 7th 2020TWO CENTURIES ago Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish physicist, demonstrated that the motion of an electric charge produces…