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Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. We visit 2032 and meet artificial animals that love their owners, without the carbon footprint of biological pets. Rowan Hooper explains how it happened

New technologies will radically change the experience of living with and caring for someone with Alzheimer's, says Professor Fiona Carragher, chief policy and research officer at Alzheimer's Society, UK

Increased airway NK cells, altered circulating NK cell immunophenotype, and cytotoxic dysfunction are associated with severe pediatric RSV infection.

Reversible attention deficits after early adversity are mediated by sleep across species.

Multispecific antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 increase pseudovirus neutralization breadth and potency and inhibit immune escape in vitro.

Mitochondrial creatine kinase 2 is decreased in type 2 diabetes, which impairs skeletal muscle mitochondrial function.

Unraveling the cancer-stroma interactome in myelofibrosis reveals galectin-1 as an actionable target.

It is thought that humans can only maintain relationships with around 150 people, a figure known as Dunbar's number, but it seems that AI models can outstrip this and reach consensus in far bigger groups

Gears just a few micrometres wide can be carved from silicon using a beam of electrons, enabling tiny robots or machines that could interact with human cells

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enabled machine learning and are key to the development of artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT

Motion sensors in smartphones can be turned into makeshift microphones to eavesdrop on conversations, outsmarting security features designed to stop such attacks

Hurricane Helene hit a quartz mine in North Carolina that is key to global semiconductor production, which could impact the entire tech industry. Here is everything we know so far

A detector on the International Space Station found signatures of unexpectedly abundant antimatter – which may have been created in clashes of dark matter particles

Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022

The first 18 satellites of a planned Chinese mega constellation are brighter than all but 500 stars in the sky, raising fears of a huge impact on astronomy

A computer simulation suggests that some collisions between exotic, hypothetical stars would make space-time ripple with detectable waves

AI chatbots from Google and Microsoft sometimes parrot disinformation when answering questions about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – but their performance depends on language and changes over time

Machines are fighting machines on the Ukrainian battlefield, as a technological arms race has given birth to a new way to wage war