Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google DeepMind will establish its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK, as it signs a new ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth. Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine ...

For years, historians believed that only trained Inca specialists were responsible for handling the records of emperors. Those records weren’t kept on paper. They were made with cords and knots called ...