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Thousands of men with high-risk prostate cancer that has not spread will gain access to abiraterone after NHS England approved ...

CRISPR can rewrite our genetic code: Best ideas of the century

“The pain was like being struck by lightning and hit by a freight train all at the same time,” Victoria ...

Realising the importance of our microbiome: Best ideas of the century

“The gut microbiome has transformed our understanding of human health,” says Tim Spector at King’s College London, co-founder of the Zoe nutrition ...

Smartphones (yes, really): Best ideas of the century

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” said Steve Jobs at an Apple launch ...

Crowdsourcing Wikipedia’s encyclopedia: Best ideas of the century

Hostility and discord are hallmarks of the internet more so than collaboration and cooperation. So the fact that a public ...

Our solar system is extremely weird: Best ideas of the century

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began ...

Gigafactories bring the electrification of everything: Best ideas of the century

Batteries and the harnessing of solar energy have been around in one form or another for centuries, but only in ...

How fear drastically shapes ecosystems: Best ideas of the century

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the effects were dramatic. Among other things, elk numbers fell far more ...

The totemic 1.5°C climate target: Best ideas of the century

In the first decade of the 21st century, most scientists and policy-makers were focused on 2°C as being the highest “safe” threshold for ...

Revealing the epic story of ancient humans: Best ideas of the century

What has happened in the field of human evolution over the past 25 years can be summed up in one ...

End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century

We all keep secrets. Whether you are trying to protect messages to loved ones, company accounts or vital state intelligence, ...

The hidden power of epigenetics: Best ideas of the century

At the dawn of the millennium, the number of genes in our genome was still up for discussion. When we finally ...

Transformer architecture, the one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

Today’s most powerful AI tools – the ones that can summarise documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly ...

Neurodiversity reveals there’s no such thing as a normal brain: Best ideas of the century

Once upon a time, science worked on the assumption that there was such a thing as a “normal” brain that ...

Click chemistry is a revolutionary way to make molecules: Best ideas of the century

Chemistry can be a messy, sluggish business, frequently involving cocktails of chemicals in round-bottomed flasks that must later be painstakingly ...

Transient astronomy films the universe’s biggest dramas: Best ideas of the century

Step back 1000 years, look up at the night sky and you might notice some extra dots of light compared ...

Pinning extreme weather on climate change: Best ideas of the century

In January 2003, physicist Myles Allen watched as floodwaters from the Thames river threatened to seep into his home in Oxford, UK. He wanted to know why meteorologists at ...

The immense interconnectivity of the brain: Best ideas of the century

You have probably heard the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One feels the trunk and says it’s ...

The invention of net zero: Best ideas of the century