Can India build a world-leading computer chip industry from scratch? India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wants the country to become a dominant player in the sector in just a few years
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2422985-can-i

Let's not trash recycling technologies that could end plastic waste Some environmental campaigners claim that attempts to create a circular economy for plastics are doomed to fail – but the arguments can be disingenuous
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/mg26234883-00

Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the Great Barrier Reef Targeted culling of crown-of-thorns starfish has resulted in parts of the Great Barrier Reef maintaining and even increasing coral cover, leading researchers to call for the programme to be dramatically scaled up
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2428310-culli

Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny device The very weak forces of attraction caused by the Casimir effect can now be used to manipulate microscopic gold flakes and turn them into a light-trapping tool
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2428182-quant

Japan’s SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a third lunar night Almost all moon landers break down during the extraordinary cold of lunar night, but Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has astonishingly survived three nights
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2428439-japan