Digital knitting machines and other manufacturing advances mean smart textiles are getting even smarter. One researcher has even made a remotely operated compression jacket for his dog – to provide ‘hugs’ when she’s anxious or upset. Maria Burke reports
Limiting greenhouse gas emissions is one way to fight climate change – but there are more radical approaches, too, as Jasmin Fox-Skelly reports.
Animals are not an efficient way of converting plants into food. So how can we increase protein production sustainably? Anthony King reports.
Organoids and organs-on-chips can now be used in submissions to move drugs into human clinical trials. So does this signal the end of animal testing? Katrina Megget reports.