Lead Stories
The making of the human mind
FOUR MILLION YEARS OF BRAIN EXPANSION
Your Brain, Outsourced
How AI takeover of mental tasks influences your memory, attention, and expertise.
Mind the gut
New research into the gut-brain axis shows how gut microbes and their signals affect brain health, paving the way for novel experiments and new therapies.
A whole new ball game
Data, mathematics, and technology are proving to have a game-changing influence on sports fields.
Dr Bot wields the scalpel
Robots are rewriting the rules of surgery, with a precision that humans may find hard to match. A glimpse of the revolution in the operation theatre.
