Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...

It is an obvious extension of this research to convert static DNA structures into machines. DNA is not the natural choice of material to build active structures with because it lacks the structural ...

Just weeks after leaving the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Prof Paul Monks says his five years as a chief scientific adviser have left him with the conviction that “science, in many ...