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Science & technology | The new nanotech

Synthetic proteins are being built with the help of AI models

They could treat diseases, test drugs and boost crop yields

|Seattle|7 min read

Making biofuels is messy, inefficient and expensive. Vast quantities of crops such as maize and soyabeans must be grown, harvested and processed before their energy, accumulated slowly through natural photosynthesis, can be put to use. Nate Ennist of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington, in Seattle, thinks that synthetic proteins can boost the rate of return.

A pen made of a DNA strand.

A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome

The tools developed along the way could revolutionise medicine

The kleptoplastic sea slug

How sea slugs give themselves superpowers

Their slimy shenanigans might have applications for humans, too


A head with speech bubbles coming out of it.

Is being bilingual good for your brain?

Perhaps. Learning languages offers other, more concrete benefits


Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem

Across the rich world politics is driving scepticism 

Scientists have created healthy, fertile mice with two fathers

Bipaternal human children, though, are still far away

Killer whales appear to craft their own tools

One group uses kelp stalks as exfoliating brushes