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A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder – but only under very specific conditions ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450758-certain-quantum-systems-may-be-able-to-defy-entropys-effects-forever/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-08T13:00:47Z **Microscopic gears powered by light could be used to make tiny machines**
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 ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450923-microscopic-gears-powered-by-light-could-be-used-to-make-tiny-machines/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-08T10:53:18Z **Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques**
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 ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451012-nobel-prize-for-physics-goes-to-pair-who-invented-key-ai-techniques/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-08T19:00:09Z **Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape pleasure and pain**
Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive and negative expectations can influence brain activity patterns for pleasure and pain ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450955-hot-sauce-taste-test-reveals-how-expectations-shape-pleasure-and-pain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-08T17:00:13Z **AIs can work together in much larger groups than humans ever could**
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 ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2447192-ais-can-work-together-in-much-larger-groups-than-humans-ever-could/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-08T16:00:00Z **A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out**
Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435120-800-a-cave-in-france-is-revealing-how-the-neanderthals-died-out/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-08T23:31:59Z **See the stunning winners from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year**
An army of tadpoles and a stretching lynx are just some of the incredible photos winning accolades at the annual competition ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450872-see-the-stunning-winners-from-the-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T10:58:41Z **Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering structures of proteins**
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for research on predicting protein structures and designing new proteins ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451239-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-mastering-structures-of-proteins/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T10:30:21Z **Extreme hurricane season is here and it is fuelled by climate change**
Hurricanes have kept forecasters guessing this year, but with the arrival of intense storms like Helene and Milton it is clear that warming ocean waters are having an effect on the weather ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451207-extreme-hurricane-season-is-here-and-it-is-fuelled-by-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T08:00:55Z **Your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of types of viruses**
More than 600 types of viruses that infect bacteria have been found living on toothbrushes and showerheads – and many of them have never been seen before ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451111-your-toothbrush-is-teeming-with-hundreds-of-types-of-viruses/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T15:00:55Z **This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to quantum weirdness**
If gravity is a truly quantum entity, something as simple as measuring the strength of an object’s gravitational field should change its quantum state ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450989-this-test-could-reveal-whether-gravity-is-subject-to-quantum-weirdness/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T18:00:02Z **Weight-loss drugs lower impulse to eat – and perhaps to exercise too**
Popular weight-loss medications including Ozempic and Wegovy contain a drug that seems to decrease cravings for food and drugs – and now there’s evidence that it might make exercise less rewarding, too ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451209-weight-loss-drugs-lower-impulse-to-eat-and-perhaps-to-exercise-too/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T18:00:00Z **The relentless push for productivity misconstrues how our brains work**
The latest neuroscience shows that, contrary to a lot of productivity advice, the drive to make the most of every waking moment will diminish your capacity for creative thinking ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435123-000-the-relentless-push-for-productivity-misconstrues-how-our-brains-work/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-09T16:29:58Z **Nobel prizes are still failing to celebrate the diversity of science**
The Nobel committees seem to have an unfortunate habit of overlooking women and Black people when it comes to science – this must change, says Alexandra Thompson ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451324-nobel-prizes-are-still-failing-to-celebrate-the-diversity-of-science/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-10T10:00:51Z **Do the 2024 Nobel prizes show that AI is the future of science?**
Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in AI, but does this mean that AI models are now vital for science? ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451337-do-the-2024-nobel-prizes-show-that-ai-is-the-future-of-science/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-10T15:00:46Z **There could be 30,000 species of earthworms wriggling around the world**
Nearly 6000 species and subspecies of earthworms have been identified by scientists – but the true number could top 30,000 ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451401-there-could-be-30000-species-of-earthworms-wriggling-around-the-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-10T12:46:16Z **Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet**
The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemisphere sky during October, in a rare event thought to happen only every few decades ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451445-earth-may-be-about-to-pass-through-the-ion-tail-of-a-comet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-10T19:00:44Z **Tiniest 'ruler' ever measures distances as small as an atom's width**
A new technique uses glowing molecules, laser light and microscopes to measure distances as minuscule as 0.1 nanometres – the width of a typical atom ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451369-tiniest-ruler-ever-measures-distances-as-small-as-an-atoms-width/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T12:30:26Z **Starship: When will SpaceX's next 'chopstick' test flight go ahead?**
SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federal Aviation Administration has not yet approved the launch ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451133-starship-when-will-spacexs-next-chopstick-test-flight-go-ahead/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T10:36:22Z **Elon Musk's Tesla Cybercab is a hollow promise of a robotaxi future**
Autonomous taxis are already operating on US streets, while Elon Musk has spent years promising a self-driving car and failing to deliver. The newly announced Tesla Cybercab is unlikely to change that ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451547-elon-musks-tesla-cybercab-is-a-hollow-promise-of-a-robotaxi-future/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T10:15:40Z **Millions of websites could be impacted by UK deal on Chagos Islands**
The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of website addresses ending in ".io", and no one is quite sure what will happen next ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451215-millions-of-websites-could-be-impacted-by-uk-deal-on-chagos-islands/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T09:45:16Z **Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake**
In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451533-read-an-extract-from-rachel-kushners-creation-lake/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T16:00:43Z **Stool test could provide a simpler way to diagnose endometriosis**
A chemical produced by gut bacteria could be the basis for a non-invasive test for endometriosis – and mouse experiments suggest it might also help treat the condition ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451477-stool-test-could-provide-a-simpler-way-to-diagnose-endometriosis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T15:23:24Z **France slashed bird flu outbreaks by vaccinating ducks**
A vaccination campaign targeting ducks, the farm birds most at risk of getting and spreading bird flu, succeeded in greatly reducing outbreaks of the virus on poultry farms in France ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451606-france-slashed-bird-flu-outbreaks-by-vaccinating-ducks/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T18:00:32Z **Gravity may explain why Neanderthals failed to adopt advanced weaponry**
Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently never used them – and an experiment involving a 9-metre-tall platform may explain why ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451525-gravity-may-explain-why-neanderthals-failed-to-adopt-advanced-weaponry/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-11T22:40:46Z **Hospital hit by Hurricane Milton gets system to grab water from air**
Systems that can harvest water from moisture in the atmosphere could offer a valuable water source in the wake of disasters ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451657-hospital-hit-by-hurricane-milton-gets-system-to-grab-water-from-air/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-14T11:51:03Z **NASA set to launch Europa probe to search for signs of habitability**
A 6000-kilogram spacecraft will embark on a six-year journey to Jupiter to explore whether its icy moon Europa has the conditions to support life ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451702-nasa-set-to-launch-europa-probe-to-search-for-signs-of-habitability/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-14T16:00:00Z **The archaeologist fighting claims about an advanced lost civilisation**
Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse peddles the idea that we have overlooked an extraordinary ancient civilisation. Flint Dibble explains why that is wrong, and why real archaeology is more exciting ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435130-400-the-archaeologist-fighting-claims-about-an-advanced-lost-civilisation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-14T20:00:41Z **Warmer winters mean world’s highest places may store less carbon**
At high altitudes, global warming is having its strongest effect on winter temperatures – and that might mean soils there store can less carbon than we expected ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451852-warmer-winters-mean-worlds-highest-places-may-store-less-carbon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T10:00:24Z **Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek**
A group of frogs from Madagascar have mating calls that sound like Star Trek sound effects – now their species names honour captains from the series ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451789-seven-newly-named-frog-species-make-whistles-that-sound-like-star-trek/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T16:00:00Z **Why frenemies, or love-hate relationships, are so bad for your health**
Friends who blow hot and cold put more strain on your physical and mental health than enemies. Here's how to spot them and handle them ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435131-800-why-frenemies-or-love-hate-relationships-are-so-bad-for-your-health/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T15:00:13Z **Puppies as young as 6 weeks old know to ask people for help**
Puppies that are raised in someone's home seem to benefit from that extra human interaction, by asking for help at a younger age than those brought up in kennels ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451644-puppies-as-young-as-6-weeks-old-know-to-ask-people-for-help/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T18:29:46Z **Human scientists are still better than AI ones – for now**
A simulator for the process of scientific discovery shows that AI agents still fall short of human scientists and engineers in coming up with hypotheses and carrying out experiments on their own ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451863-human-scientists-are-still-better-than-ai-ones-for-now/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T22:15:49Z **Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy**
A mathematical study finds that three definitions of what it means for entropy to increase, which have previously been considered equivalent, can produce different results in the quantum realm ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452045-quantum-theory-is-challenging-long-standing-ideas-about-entropy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T19:00:46Z **Male mice flee to female mice to de-escalate fights**
During a fight between two male mice, one will often run to a female mouse to distract their aggressor, a bait-and-switch strategy that could help abate social conflicts ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451874-male-mice-flee-to-female-mice-to-de-escalate-fights/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T19:59:06Z **First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe**
The Euclid space telescope's massive “cosmic atlas” promises to shed light on fundamental questions in physics and cosmology ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452099-first-breathtaking-images-from-euclid-telescopes-map-of-the-universe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-16T00:01:05Z **6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G**
Next-generation phone networks could dramatically outperform current ones thanks to a new technique for transmitting multiple streams of data over a wide range of frequencies ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451769-6g-phone-networks-could-be-9000-times-faster-than-5g/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-15T23:30:42Z **Risk of nut allergies from air on planes has been overblown**
Filters on commercial flights seem to stop nut particles from circulating around aircraft, making the risk of a serious allergic reaction from inhaling the allergens very low ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451897-risk-of-nut-allergies-from-air-on-planes-has-been-overblown/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-16T12:00:52Z **Invasive snake is surviving in Britain by living in attics and walls**
Britain should be too cold for the invasive Aesculapian snake to survive, but it is thriving by exploiting the warmth of attics, wall cavities and compost heaps ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451504-invasive-snake-is-surviving-in-britain-by-living-in-attics-and-walls/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-16T19:00:32Z **Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild**
Producing a kilogram of farmed salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish, which isn't a sustainable approach to feeding the world's growing population ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452261-why-farming-fish-is-more-unsustainable-than-catching-them-in-the-wild/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-16T19:00:02Z **Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs**
Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico have tiny bits of plastic in their breath, and this is probably a worldwide problem ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452155-dolphins-breathe-in-microplastics-and-it-could-be-damaging-their-lungs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-16T18:00:00Z **We're homing in on the best ways to tackle misinformation**
A debating technique known as the "truth sandwich" is helping archaeologists combat a false narrative about an advanced ancient civilisation forgotten in human history ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435132-500-were-homing-in-on-the-best-ways-to-tackle-misinformation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-16T17:57:35Z **How 'quantum software developer' became a job that actually exists**
While quantum computers are still in their infancy, more and more people are training to become quantum software developers ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452255-how-quantum-software-developer-became-a-job-that-actually-exists/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-17T04:00:25Z **De-extinction company claims it has nearly complete thylacine genome**
Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete genome of the extinct thylacine ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452196-de-extinction-company-claims-it-has-nearly-complete-thylacine-genome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-17T12:00:11Z **Motor made from bacteria parts is one of the smallest ever built**
The natural motors that power tail-like appendages in bacteria seem to have a single evolutionary origin, allowing parts from different species to be combined to create a tiny new engine ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452327-motor-made-from-bacteria-parts-is-one-of-the-smallest-ever-built/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-17T15:00:42Z **These stunning photos celebrate the intricacy of the microscopic world**
A mouse's tumours, scales from a butterfly's wings and a smiling cross-section of a bracken fern are some of the incredible images from the Nikon Small World photography competition ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452302-these-stunning-photos-celebrate-the-intricacy-of-the-microscopic-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-17T13:00:59Z **More evidence that limiting social media won't boost your well-being**
People who went from using social media for at least 2 hours a day to just 30 minutes a day reported no improvement to their sleep or emotional well-being ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452232-more-evidence-that-limiting-social-media-wont-boost-your-well-being/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-17T16:50:17Z **We're starting to understand what being bullied does to the brain**
Being bullied when young seems to alter your brain structure for years to come - with different changes seen in males and females ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452266-were-starting-to-understand-what-being-bullied-does-to-the-brain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-18T16:21:55Z **Mathematicians have found a new way to identify prime numbers**
The first breakthrough in finding prime numbers for over 25 years has mathematicians celebrating, with hopes that the techniques behind the new proof could further advance other areas of maths ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452501-mathematicians-have-found-a-new-way-to-identify-prime-numbers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-18T15:22:57Z **Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe**
AI models have safeguards in place to prevent them creating dangerous or illegal output, but a range of jailbreaks have been found to evade them. Now researchers show that writing backwards can trick AI models into revealing bomb-making instructions. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450838-writing-backwards-can-trick-an-ai-into-providing-a-bomb-recipe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-18T13:00:08Z **Listening to music after surgery seems to be an effective painkiller**
People who listen to music after having surgery report lower levels of pain and require less morphine than those who don't ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452440-listening-to-music-after-surgery-seems-to-be-an-effective-painkiller/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-18T19:00:39Z **Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once**
Researchers used a collection of charged atoms to create a quantum superposition of an exotic type of defect ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452289-indestructible-quantum-rifts-can-exist-in-two-places-at-once/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-18T18:00:59Z **Boosting brainwaves in sleep improves rats’ memory**
Rats perform better on memory tests when certain brainwave-producing neurons are stimulated while they sleep. If we can boost these brainwaves in people, it could help treat memory impairments in those with dementia ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452399-boosting-brainwaves-in-sleep-improves-rats-memory/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T12:07:29Z **The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern**
The symbols and mathematical operations used in the laws of physics follow a pattern that could reveal something fundamental about the universe ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452341-the-laws-of-physics-appear-to-follow-a-mysterious-mathematical-pattern/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T10:00:51Z **Simple plan could raise the billions needed to stem biodiversity loss**
A 1 per cent levy on global retail sales would plug a funding gap of $200 billion when it comes to saving nature. Can COP16 get the world to agree to this ambitious proposal? ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452598-simple-plan-could-raise-the-billions-needed-to-stem-biodiversity-loss/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T16:00:00Z **Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries**
Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn’t lit the way to a new understanding of space-time ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435140-700-solving-stephen-hawkings-black-hole-paradox-has-raised-new-mysteries/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T19:00:21Z **Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run**
Not all winged dinosaurs were necessarily capable of full flight, but this anatomical feature may have enabled them to travel further by flapping or gliding ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452672-preserved-tracks-suggest-non-avian-dinosaurs-used-their-wings-to-run/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T17:00:39Z **Many Iron Age swords may be tainted by modern forgery**
Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age – but modern forgers glue together elements from different weapons, making it difficult for researchers to study the ancient technology ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452524-many-iron-age-swords-may-be-tainted-by-modern-forgery/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T20:44:43Z **What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit**
Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452575-what-to-expect-at-the-cop16-biodiversity-summit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T20:00:35Z **Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth**
The oriental hornet shows no ill effects – or behavioural changes – when it spends a week drinking an 80 per cent alcohol solution ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452557-hornets-can-hold-their-alcohol-like-no-other-animal-on-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T20:44:43Z **What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit**
Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452575-what-to-expect-at-the-cop16-biodiversity-summit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T20:44:43Z **What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit**
Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452575-what-to-expect-at-the-cop16-biodiversity-summit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T20:44:43Z **What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit**
Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452575-what-to-expect-at-the-cop16-biodiversity-summit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-21T21:18:36Z **What the US election will mean for AI, climate action and abortion**
The upcoming US presidential election will determine how the country regulates tech, combats the climate crisis and decides on access to abortion ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452716-what-the-us-election-will-mean-for-ai-climate-action-and-abortion/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T12:00:34Z **Can sensor technology stop a wildfire before it starts?**
The US Department of Homeland Security is trialling chemical sensors that detect the first whiff of smoke in the air and alert fire crews while a potential blaze is still smouldering ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2451036-can-sensor-technology-stop-a-wildfire-before-it-starts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T10:49:46Z **Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits**
The largest prime number is now 16 million digits longer than the previous record found in 2018, thanks to an amateur hunter and his large collection of high-power graphics cards ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452686-amateur-sleuth-finds-largest-known-prime-number-with-41-million-digits/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T09:00:16Z **I've been boosting my ego with a sycophant AI and it can't be healthy**
Google’s NotebookLM tool is billed as an AI-powered research assistant and can even turn your text history into a jovial fake podcast. But it could also tempt you into narcissism and nostalgia, says Jacob Aron ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452746-ive-been-boosting-my-ego-with-a-sycophant-ai-and-it-cant-be-healthy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T16:00:58Z **Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century**
A type of mathematical problem that was previously impossible to solve can now be successfully analysed with artificial intelligence ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452780-meta-ai-tackles-maths-problems-that-stumped-humans-for-over-a-century/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T16:00:00Z **Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions**
New research into the moments between wakefulness and sleep could bring hope for insomniacs and even make us more creative problem-solvers ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435141-700-fresh-insights-into-how-we-doze-off-may-help-tackle-sleep-conditions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T14:00:56Z **Morphing red blood cells help bats hibernate - and we could do it too**
Animals that hibernate need a way to keep their blood flowing as their body temperature drops, and it seems that the mechanical properties of red blood cells may be key ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452774-morphing-red-blood-cells-help-bats-hibernate-and-we-could-do-it-too/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-22T19:52:51Z **Woman scanned her brain 75 times to see how birth control changes it**
A neuroscientist underwent dozens of brain scans over three months to better understand the neurological effects of hormonal contraceptives ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452737-woman-scanned-her-brain-75-times-to-see-how-birth-control-changes-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T00:01:12Z **Extremely rare Bronze Age wooden tool found in English trench**
In a wetland on the south coast of England, archaeologists dug up one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain, which is around 3500 years old ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452861-extremely-rare-bronze-age-wooden-tool-found-in-english-trench/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T11:00:34Z **All your questions about Marburg virus answered**
Everything you need to know about Rwanda's outbreak of Marburg virus, which has been described as one of the deadliest human pathogens ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452663-all-your-questions-about-marburg-virus-answered/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T14:55:58Z **A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system**
A nearby star that exploded 3 million years ago could have removed all dust smaller than a millimetre from the outer solar system ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453017-a-supernova-may-have-cleaned-up-our-solar-system/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T16:00:51Z **DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster**
Researchers have managed to encode enormous amounts of information, including images, into DNA at a rate hundreds of times faster than was previously possible ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452876-dna-has-been-modified-to-make-it-store-data-350-times-faster/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T16:00:15Z **Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable**
Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452847-google-tool-makes-ai-generated-writing-easily-detectable/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T16:00:00Z **Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it**
The systems we use to produce food have many problems, from horrifying waste to their dependence on fossil fuels. Vaclav Smil explains how to fix them ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435141-800-energy-expert-vaclav-smil-on-how-to-feed-the-world-without-trashing-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-23T18:07:52Z **Nuclear waste tanker pilots futuristic aluminium sail**
Adding blade-like sails to tankers could reduce their annual fuel consumption by up to 30 per cent, slashing the climate impact of the shipping industry ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453040-nuclear-waste-tanker-pilots-futuristic-aluminium-sail/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-24T15:00:52Z **Carbon emissions are now growing faster than before the pandemic**
Despite talk of a green recovery, global greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise as the world emerged from coronavirus lockdowns ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453198-carbon-emissions-are-now-growing-faster-than-before-the-pandemic/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-24T19:00:36Z **Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time**
Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452199-complex-form-of-carbon-spotted-outside-solar-system-for-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-24T19:00:32Z **Your gut bacteria are at war - and force their enemies to switch sides**
Rival tribes of bacteria armed with poison darts are fighting it out in your gut, with armies of traitors often winning the day ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453218-your-gut-bacteria-are-at-war-and-force-their-enemies-to-switch-sides/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-24T19:00:06Z **Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did two decades ago**
In the western US, the average maximum growth rate of fires has more than doubled over the past two decades ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453148-some-wildfires-are-growing-twice-as-fast-as-they-did-two-decades-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-24T16:00:21Z **Electric skin patch could keep wounds free of infection**
Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood poisoning ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453195-electric-skin-patch-could-keep-wounds-free-of-infection/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-24T17:55:15Z **Battery made from water and clay could be used on Mars**
A new battery design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and accessible than traditional batteries ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453185-battery-made-from-water-and-clay-could-be-used-on-mars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-25T11:00:51Z **Earth is now gaining less heat than it has for several years**
The recent surge in warming led to fears that climate change may be accelerating beyond model projections, but a fall in how much heat Earth is gaining makes this less likely ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453289-earth-is-now-gaining-less-heat-than-it-has-for-several-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-25T10:00:58Z **Tiny battery made from silk hydrogel can run a mouse pacemaker**
A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453303-tiny-battery-made-from-silk-hydrogel-can-run-a-mouse-pacemaker/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-25T14:00:00Z **This surprisingly creative trick helps children eat more fruit and veg**
Weaving tales of magical fruit and vegetables into your children's stories may encourage them to eat healthy snacks ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453306-this-surprisingly-creative-trick-helps-children-eat-more-fruit-and-veg/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-25T19:00:52Z **AI models fall for the same scams that we do**
Large language models can be used to scam humans, but AI is also susceptible to being scammed – and some models are more gullible than others ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453350-ai-models-fall-for-the-same-scams-that-we-do/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-25T17:00:48Z **NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit**
The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distances and set itself down on the Red Planet unassisted ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452967-nasa-is-developing-a-mars-helicopter-that-could-land-itself-from-orbit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-25T16:00:58Z **DNA helps match 'Well Man' skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga**
The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders “took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones”, in what may have been an early act of biological warfare - and now researchers believe they have found the skeleton of the man in question ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453247-dna-helps-match-well-man-skeleton-to-800-year-old-norwegian-saga/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-28T10:10:21Z **Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub**
Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along vast networks ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453552-stone-age-network-reveals-ancient-paris-was-an-artisanal-trading-hub/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-28T11:30:00Z **Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life**
Single-celled organisms called archaea can become multicellular when compressed, highlighting the role of physical forces in evolution ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453548-weird-microbes-could-help-rewrite-the-origin-of-multicellular-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-28T16:35:53Z **The world is falling far short of its goal to halt biodiversity loss**
In 2022, countries pledged to halt biodiversity loss by protecting 30 per cent of the planet by 2030, but progress has been too slow thus far ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453640-the-world-is-falling-far-short-of-its-goal-to-halt-biodiversity-loss/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-28T16:00:00Z **How psychedelics and VR could reveal how we become immersed in reality**
An outlandish experiment searching for a brain network that tunes up and down the feeling of immersion is hoping to unlock the therapeutic effects of psychedelics ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453586-how-psychedelics-and-vr-could-reveal-how-we-become-immersed-in-reality/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-28T15:48:15Z **Meditation seems to improve empathy for strangers**
In a small study, women experienced more empathy for strangers who were experiencing pain after an eight-week meditation training programme ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453314-meditation-seems-to-improve-empathy-for-strangers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T00:01:01Z **Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked**
China's carbon emissions may have peaked in 2023, as figures suggest its output has plateaued so far in 2024 ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453703-clean-energy-rollout-means-chinas-emissions-may-have-peaked/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T15:00:35Z **One course of antibiotics can change your gut microbiome for years**
Antibiotics can reduce diversity in the gut microbiome, raising the risk of infections that cause diarrhoea - and the effects may last years ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453800-one-course-of-antibiotics-can-change-your-gut-microbiome-for-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T15:00:00Z **Do certain foods suppress inflammation and help you live longer?**
Recent research shows that anti-inflammatory diets are not as faddish as they might sound, with the power to reduce the risk of heart attacks and some cancers ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-600-do-certain-foods-suppress-inflammation-and-help-you-live-longer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T14:00:19Z **AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move**
A specialised algorithm could help autonomous vehicles track hidden objects, such as a pedestrian, a bicycle or another vehicle concealed behind a parked car ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453516-ai-helps-driverless-cars-predict-how-unseen-pedestrians-may-move/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T13:00:00Z **Could when you eat be as important as what you eat?**
Peaks in appetite and metabolism driven by our body's inbuilt clocks mean that eating at the wrong time can have consequences for our health and waistline ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-200-could-when-you-eat-be-as-important-as-what-you-eat/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T19:00:00Z **The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point**
In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a permanent shift ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453873-the-amazon-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-climate-tipping-point/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T18:00:47Z **Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars**
Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453853-astronauts-could-hitch-a-ride-on-asteroids-to-get-to-venus-or-mars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-29T17:00:00Z **The surprising truth about the health benefits of snacking**
We get about a quarter of our calories from snacks and new research shows that this isn't necessarily bad for us. Done right, snacking can boost our health ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-400-the-surprising-truth-about-the-health-benefits-of-snacking/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T15:00:00Z **Are fermented foods like kimchi really that good for your gut?**
The health benefits of fermented food and drink have long been touted, but firm evidence in favour of kombucha, sauerkraut and kefir is surprisingly elusive ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-800-are-fermented-foods-like-kimchi-really-that-good-for-your-gut/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T13:00:00Z **Can we really balance our hormones by eating certain foods?**
Diets that claim to control excess oestrogen or stress hormones are all the rage on Instagram and TikTok. They could be good for us, just not for the reasons claimed ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-300-can-we-really-balance-our-hormones-by-eating-certain-foods/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T19:00:00Z **Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fits-all diet advice?**
Our metabolism's response to food is highly idiosyncratic and there are hints that tailoring our diet to these personal differences can deliver health benefits ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-700-is-personalised-nutrition-better-than-one-size-fits-all-diet-advice/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T18:00:37Z **AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins**
Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarctic penguin colonies – even as researchers debate whether to harness or discourage tourism in this remote region ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453986-ai-can-use-tourist-photos-to-help-track-antarcticas-penguins/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T18:00:00Z **How to cut through the latest nutritional fads**
From the benefits of fermented foods to diets that promise a better hormone balance, there is a confusing array of dietary advice out there ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435153-300-how-to-cut-through-the-latest-nutritional-fads/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T16:00:03Z **Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body**
A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, evolves and develops resistance to treatments ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454084-cancer-atlas-reveals-how-tumours-evolve-inside-the-body/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T17:00:00Z **The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-reaching health impacts**
Most ingredients touted as the key to better health fail to live up to the hype but fibre bucks this trend, with benefits for the whole body, not just the gut ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435150-500-the-surprisingly-simple-supernutrient-with-far-reaching-health-impacts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T16:00:17Z **Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years**
A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that different from some modern species ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454031-oldest-tadpole-fossil-known-to-science-dates-back-161-million-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T22:00:41Z **Simple fix could make the census more accurate but just as private**
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information private – but a new approach could maintain the same privacy while improving accuracy ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454095-simple-fix-could-make-the-census-more-accurate-but-just-as-private/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-30T20:00:53Z **Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer**
The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454073-michelangelos-the-flood-seems-to-depict-a-woman-with-breast-cancer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-31T11:21:30Z **Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare**
The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough time, but the amount of time needed is much longer than the lifespan of the universe ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454221-chimpanzees-will-never-randomly-type-the-complete-works-of-shakespeare/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-31T14:51:08Z **A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from seven people**
Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who assembled it or why ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454310-a-bizarre-skeleton-from-a-roman-grave-has-bones-from-seven-people/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-31T13:52:43Z **Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar**
An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's speaker, enabling an AI model to transcribe the conversation, even at a distance in a noisy room ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453191-spies-can-eavesdrop-on-phone-calls-by-sensing-vibrations-with-radar/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-31T18:00:30Z **War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people conceived in 1940s**
People conceived during the UK's 1940s and 50s sugar rationing have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure than those conceived after rationing ended ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454375-war-era-sugar-rationing-boosted-health-of-uk-people-conceived-in-1940s/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-10-31T17:00:55Z **Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate**
Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454326-lakes-are-losing-winter-ice-cover-at-an-astonishing-rate/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T10:00:21Z **Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners**
Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to advances in medical imaging, cooling systems and even nuclear reactors ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454183-cloud-inspired-material-can-bend-light-around-corners/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T09:00:16Z **The best new science fiction books of November 2024**
From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454271-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-november-2024/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T14:28:25Z **There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow**
Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any physical process in the universe can grow ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454024-there-may-be-a-cosmic-speed-limit-on-how-fast-anything-can-grow/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T14:14:22Z **World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms**
DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454482-worlds-largest-tree-is-also-among-the-oldest-living-organisms/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T12:55:43Z **One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI**
Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's release seem to include AI-written content ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454256-one-in-20-new-wikipedia-pages-seem-to-be-written-with-the-help-of-ai/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T20:08:49Z **We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction**
Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre particles that sometimes move like they have no mass, but at other times move just like a very massive particle ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454508-weve-seen-particles-that-are-massless-only-when-moving-one-direction/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T20:00:35Z **Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil**
Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their role in the carbon cycle may be ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454541-viruses-may-help-store-vast-amounts-of-carbon-in-soil/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-01T20:21:36Z **Bird flu was found in a US pig – does that raise the risk for humans?**
A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found in a pig in the US for the first time, raising the risk of the virus evolving to become more dangerous to people ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454545-bird-flu-was-found-in-a-us-pig-does-that-raise-the-risk-for-humans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-04T10:50:55Z **COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climate conference**
The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, but countries are a long way from any kind of consensus ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454514-cop29-clashes-over-cash-are-set-to-dominate-the-climate-conference/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-04T16:00:00Z **The complete guide to cooking oils and how they affect your health**
From seed oils to olive oil, we now have an overwhelming choice of what to cook with. Here’s how they all stack up, according to the scientific evidence ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435160-100-the-complete-guide-to-cooking-oils-and-how-they-affect-your-health/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-04T22:15:29Z **Spraying rice with sunscreen particles during heat waves boosts growth**
Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, can make plants more resilient to climate change – in a surprising way ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454728-spraying-rice-with-sunscreen-particles-during-heat-waves-boosts-growth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-04T21:45:20Z **Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch**
A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodynamics shows that it may be possible for heat to move in the “wrong” direction, flowing from a cold area to a warm one ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454717-heat-can-flow-backwards-in-a-gas-so-thin-its-particles-never-touch/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-04T20:15:10Z **The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for protecting nature**
Although the COP16 summit in Colombia ended with some important agreements, countries still aren’t moving fast enough to stem biodiversity loss ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454705-the-cop16-biodiversity-summit-was-a-big-flop-for-protecting-nature/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-05T00:01:09Z **Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing**
Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454631-ancient-mesopotamian-clay-seals-offer-clues-to-the-origin-of-writing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-05T11:49:04Z **Natural fibres in wet wipes may actually be worse for soil and animals**
Fibres in wet wipes and clothes often make their way into soil - and natural versions could be more damaging than synthetic ones ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454752-natural-fibres-in-wet-wipes-may-actually-be-worse-for-soil-and-animals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-05T15:00:25Z **Dazzling images illuminate research on cardiovascular disease**
The British Heart Foundation’s Reflections of Research competition showcases beautiful images captured by researchers studying heart and circulatory disease ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454851-dazzling-images-illuminate-research-on-cardiovascular-disease/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-05T20:26:31Z **Distant dwarf planet Makemake might have a surprising ice volcano**
A small world in the outer solar system appears to have volcanic activity possibly spurred by liquid water ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455052-distant-dwarf-planet-makemake-might-have-a-surprising-ice-volcano/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T00:01:15Z **Vampire bats run on a treadmill to reveal their strange metabolism**
Experiments where vampire bats were made to run on a treadmill have revealed how they extract energy from protein in their latest blood meal ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454532-vampire-bats-run-on-a-treadmill-to-reveal-their-strange-metabolism/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T14:00:30Z **2024 is set to be the first year that breaches the 1.5°C warming limit**
This year’s average global temperature is almost certain to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial times – a milestone that should spur urgent action, say climate scientists ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455106-2024-is-set-to-be-the-first-year-that-breaches-the-1-5c-warming-limit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T18:00:00Z **What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change**
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435162-700-what-preparing-for-an-asteroid-strike-teaches-us-about-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T17:28:00Z **More people are living with pain today than before covid emerged**
Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedentary lifestyles or reduced access to healthcare amid covid-19 restrictions ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455122-more-people-are-living-with-pain-today-than-before-covid-emerged/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T16:55:00Z **If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?**
In this choose-your-own-adventure game, it's up to you to protect the planet. From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, find out what would give us the best chance of survival ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435160-600-if-an-asteroid-were-heading-towards-earth-could-you-avert-disaster/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T20:15:51Z **Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forever**
Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold atoms could support vortex knots that never lose their knottiness ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455058-knots-made-in-a-weird-quantum-fluid-can-last-forever/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-06T22:05:20Z **Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep's horns – and we don't know why**
The earliest evidence of livestock with modified horns has been discovered in ancient Egypt – sheep skulls with horns that point in unnatural directions suggest humans forced them to grow that way ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455253-ancient-egyptians-shaped-sheeps-horns-and-we-dont-know-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T18:10:40Z **Bird flu antibodies found in dairy workers in Michigan and Colorado**
Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had antibodies against the disease ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455411-bird-flu-antibodies-found-in-dairy-workers-in-michigan-and-colorado/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T18:00:29Z **Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution**
When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the traits of the individual, according to a study in marmots ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454693-marmots-could-have-the-solution-to-a-long-running-debate-in-evolution/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T16:10:00Z **The real reason VAR infuriates football fans and how to fix it**
The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled relationship with uncertainty – and point to potential solutions ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454587-the-real-reason-var-infuriates-football-fans-and-how-to-fix-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T16:00:59Z **Carbon emissions from private jets have exploded in recent years**
The climate impact of flights taken by the super-rich rose sharply from 2019 to 2023, fuelling calls for a carbon tax on private aviation ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455196-carbon-emissions-from-private-jets-have-exploded-in-recent-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T16:00:28Z **Chinese rover finds further evidence for an ancient ocean on Mars**
Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient shoreline in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455332-chinese-rover-finds-further-evidence-for-an-ancient-ocean-on-mars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T16:00:01Z **DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii**
Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455299-dna-analysis-rewrites-the-stories-of-people-buried-in-pompeii/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-07T19:00:44Z **Why hairy animals shake themselves dry**
The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with pressure than temperature ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455284-why-hairy-animals-shake-themselves-dry/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-08T09:00:20Z **We are a long way from pregnancy being safe on Mars**
Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous place to be during pregnancy ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454955-we-are-a-long-way-from-pregnancy-being-safe-on-mars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-08T15:00:21Z **Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?**
In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454502-why-does-our-universe-have-something-instead-of-nothing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-08T19:00:46Z **AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world**
Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455418-ai-helps-robot-dogs-navigate-the-real-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T10:04:35Z **Any delay in reaching net zero will influence climate for centuries**
Reaching net-zero emissions is essential for halting climate change - but even after we achieve this goal, parts of the planet will continue to warm. Delaying net zero will worsen these effects ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455398-any-delay-in-reaching-net-zero-will-influence-climate-for-centuries/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T16:00:49Z **Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700**
Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established a new pre-industrial reference by using Antarctic ice cores to estimate the average temperature before 1700 ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455715-humanity-has-warmed-the-planet-by-1-5c-since-1700/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T16:00:42Z **Lights on surfboards and wetsuits could deter shark attacks**
Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white sharks, revealing a possible strategy to protect surfers and swimmers ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455584-lights-on-surfboards-and-wetsuits-could-deter-shark-attacks/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T16:00:33Z **Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet**
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic field ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455695-our-only-visit-to-uranus-came-at-an-unusual-time-for-the-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T16:00:00Z **Is the climate change food crisis even worse than we imagined?**
Extreme weather and a growing population is driving a food security crisis. What can we do to break the vicious cycle of carbon emissions, climate change and soaring food costs – or is it already too late? ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435170-800-is-the-climate-change-food-crisis-even-worse-than-we-imagined/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T15:29:39Z **Audio AIs are trained on data full of bias and offensive language**
Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" than "woman" or "women", raising fears of bias ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455742-audio-ais-are-trained-on-data-full-of-bias-and-offensive-language/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-11T18:00:53Z **How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano**
Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455790-how-a-single-gopher-restored-a-landscape-devastated-by-a-volcano/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T06:00:33Z **Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons**
Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly being exposed to high doses of rat poison ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455641-red-kites-and-buzzards-are-being-killed-by-misuse-of-rat-poisons/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T16:00:36Z **Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance**
An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the volcano, which could extend forecasts of eruptions from minutes to months ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455747-next-mauna-loa-eruption-could-be-forecast-months-in-advance/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T16:00:00Z **A new life on Mars? Expect toxic dust, bad vibes and insects for lunch**
You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the Red Planet ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435170-900-a-new-life-on-mars-expect-toxic-dust-bad-vibes-and-insects-for-lunch/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T15:00:19Z **This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks**
An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building blocks ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455713-this-robot-can-build-anything-you-ask-for-out-of-blocks/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T14:00:27Z **SpaceX targets Starship flight next week – just a month after last one**
SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. Next week's launch – if successful – will be the fastest turnaround yet ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455476-spacex-targets-starship-flight-next-week-just-a-month-after-last-one/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T22:01:06Z **Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"**
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455903-orbital-wins-the-booker-prize-i-see-it-as-a-kind-of-space-pastoral/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T21:32:34Z **Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb**
AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation that could help make urban tree planting and trimming decisions ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455892-google-street-view-helps-map-how-600000-trees-grow-down-to-the-limb/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-12T18:51:32Z **Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them**
Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the same can happen to tiny jets of liquid too ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455811-jets-of-liquid-bounce-off-hot-surfaces-without-ever-touching-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T00:01:07Z **Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high**
An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this year ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455815-drought-fires-and-fossil-fuels-push-co2-emissions-to-a-record-high/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T00:00:39Z **Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS**
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their coordinates on a mental map ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455948-migratory-birds-can-use-earths-magnetic-field-like-a-gps/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T16:05:00Z **Why we now think the myopia epidemic can be slowed – or even reversed**
Rates of near-sightedness are rising all over the world. But solutions to the epidemic are coming into focus and could be simpler than you think ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435170-700-why-we-now-think-the-myopia-epidemic-can-be-slowed-or-even-reversed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T16:00:37Z **Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene editing**
Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without decreasing yields ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456025-sweeter-tomatoes-are-coming-soon-thanks-to-crispr-gene-editing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T16:00:34Z **Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere**
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that could improve GPS accuracy and help track space weather ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455986-millions-of-phones-create-most-complete-map-ever-of-the-ionosphere/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T16:00:11Z **Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains**
Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456043-exquisite-bird-fossil-provides-clues-to-the-evolution-of-avian-brains/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T19:00:43Z **Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema**
Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has strengthened the association ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456063-mounting-evidence-points-to-air-pollution-as-a-cause-of-eczema/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T19:00:11Z **12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools**
Dozens of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be early examples of spindle whorls, a rotating tool used in textile making that was a step towards inventing the wheel ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456238-12000-year-old-stones-may-be-oldest-example-of-wheel-like-tools/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-13T18:00:00Z **We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis**
Food production is responsible for more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions. To get everyone the food they need in a warming world, governments worldwide must invest in securing our food systems ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435173-000-we-must-use-genetic-technologies-now-to-avert-the-coming-food-crisis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T00:01:23Z **World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident**
The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries old ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455922-worlds-largest-coral-is-300-years-old-and-was-discovered-by-accident/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T12:00:12Z **Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners**
Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might help the cars recover from dangerous situations ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454054-watch-autonomous-cars-do-doughnuts-and-drift-sideways-round-corners/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T11:10:27Z **Starship launch flight 6: When is Elon Musk’s SpaceX flight test?**
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. It aims to conduct the launch as early as 18 November. Here’s everything we know so far ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455476-starship-launch-flight-6-when-is-elon-musks-spacex-flight-test/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T16:00:19Z **People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson**
Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson – perhaps because they often have more straightforward themes and simpler structure ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456291-people-prefer-ai-generated-poems-to-shakespeare-and-dickinson/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T15:00:52Z **Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow**
With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light cast a shadow when illuminated by the other ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456023-bizarre-test-shows-light-can-actually-cast-its-own-shadow/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T19:00:22Z **Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow**
Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to fall downwind and punch holes in clouds ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456202-plumes-of-pollution-from-big-factories-can-make-it-snow/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T16:48:22Z **Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial solar eclipse**
The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one creating an artificial solar eclipse from the perspective of the other ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456395-twin-spacecraft-will-launch-to-create-an-artificial-solar-eclipse/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-14T21:34:00Z **Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain**
Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising alternative to opioids ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456295-weight-loss-medications-may-also-ease-chronic-pain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T12:00:01Z **A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved**
A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk came about ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455919-a-200-year-old-mystery-about-newts-has-finally-been-solved/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T11:07:15Z **A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle**
Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could help astronomers pin down how quickly the universe is expanding ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456391-a-unique-pair-of-galactic-lenses-may-help-solve-a-cosmological-riddle/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T11:00:39Z **How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans**
It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the scientists who have studied her say that this fossil gave us a misleading image of the nature of her species ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455818-how-we-misunderstood-what-the-lucy-fossil-reveals-about-ancient-humans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T09:00:04Z **There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study**
A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments suggest this "inattentional blindness" might not tell the whole story ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455806-theres-a-new-twist-on-the-famous-invisible-gorilla-psychology-study/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T16:00:06Z **AI models work together faster when they speak their own language**
Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth to English, could accelerate their task-solving abilities ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455173-ai-models-work-together-faster-when-they-speak-their-own-language/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T15:00:28Z **Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them**
Governments and companies almost never take action when satellites alert them about large methane leaks coming from oil and gas infrastructure ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456488-satellites-spot-methane-leaks-but-super-emitters-dont-fix-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T14:00:20Z **COP29 host Azerbaijan faces climate disaster as Caspian Sea dries up**
Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets hotter, posing a major threat to economic activity and ecosystems in the region ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456438-cop29-host-azerbaijan-faces-climate-disaster-as-caspian-sea-dries-up/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-15T21:00:12Z **Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but it won't work**
Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456510-australia-wants-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-but-it-wont-work/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-18T08:00:21Z **Evidence is growing that microbes in your mouth contribute to cancer**
The oral microbiome is increasingly being linked to head and neck cancer, but we don't yet understand its exact role ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456451-evidence-is-growing-that-microbes-in-your-mouth-contribute-to-cancer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-18T10:28:51Z **Vital Atlantic Ocean current is already weakening due to melting ice**
A study modelling the impact of melting ice suggests scientists have underestimated the risk that an important ocean current will shut down and cause climate chaos ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456610-vital-atlantic-ocean-current-is-already-weakening-due-to-melting-ice/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-18T16:00:25Z **Countries are cheating their way to net zero by overrelying on forests**
Leading researchers warn that relying on "passive" carbon sinks such as forests to absorb ongoing carbon emissions will doom the world to continued warming ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456548-countries-are-cheating-their-way-to-net-zero-by-overrelying-on-forests/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-18T20:00:05Z **We may have solved the mystery of what froze Earth's inner core**
A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our planet froze solid ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456287-we-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-what-froze-earths-inner-core/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-18T19:59:47Z **Quantum time crystals could be used to store energy**
The weird thermodynamics found in time crystals could be harnessed to store energy in a quantum battery-like device ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456433-quantum-time-crystals-could-be-used-to-store-energy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T10:00:02Z **Wild cavefish can somehow survive with almost no sleep at all**
Several populations of Mexican tetra fish that live in darkness have independently evolved to need hardly any sleep, but the reason why is a mystery ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456416-wild-cavefish-can-somehow-survive-with-almost-no-sleep-at-all/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T08:00:18Z **AI maths assistant could help solve problems that humans are stuck on**
Most mathematicians have been reluctant to start working with artificial intelligence, but a new tool developed by researchers at Meta may change that ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456653-ai-maths-assistant-could-help-solve-problems-that-humans-are-stuck-on/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T12:10:52Z **Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media**
Nearly 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and who you interact with. I think it is the future of social media, says Chris Stokel-Walker ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456782-bluesky-is-ushering-in-a-pick-your-own-algorithm-era-of-social-media/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T17:02:17Z **World's new fastest supercomputer is built to simulate nuclear bombs**
The vast computational power of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will be used to support the US nuclear deterrent ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456779-worlds-new-fastest-supercomputer-is-built-to-simulate-nuclear-bombs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T16:00:33Z **Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics**
Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456877-heart-shaped-mollusc-has-windows-that-work-like-fibre-optics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T16:00:00Z **The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?**
A cataclysmic quantum fluctuation could wipe out everything at any moment. The fact that we’re still here is revealing hidden cosmic realities ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435180-800-the-universe-could-vanish-at-any-moment-why-hasnt-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-19T21:32:27Z **Starship live: Watch Musk launch sixth Starship test as Trump attends**
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. It aims to conduct the launch at 4pm Central Time (10pm UK). Here’s everything we know so far ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455476-starship-live-watch-musk-launch-sixth-starship-test-as-trump-attends/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T01:00:36Z **Einstein’s theories tested on the largest scale ever – he was right**
Analysis of millions of galaxies upholds Albert Einstein’s ideas about gravity and also offers tantalising new hints of how dark energy may have evolved ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456766-einsteins-theories-tested-on-the-largest-scale-ever-he-was-right/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T05:00:24Z **Being in space makes it harder for astronauts to think quickly**
The effects of being in space can worsen an astronaut's working memory, processing speed and attention - which could be a problem for future missions ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456892-being-in-space-makes-it-harder-for-astronauts-to-think-quickly/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T10:00:24Z **See the sun revealed in stunning glory by Solar Orbiter pictures**
The best pictures we have of the sun yet have been delivered thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457069-see-the-sun-revealed-in-stunning-glory-by-solar-orbiter-pictures/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T11:12:40Z **Are calories on menus doing more harm than good?**
Many restaurants in countries such as England and the US now print calories on their menus, but some researchers question whether this is really tackling their obesity problem ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456682-are-calories-on-menus-doing-more-harm-than-good/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T18:00:00Z **Mayors are the leaders we need to help fight climate change**
By 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population will live in urban centres - that's just one reason why mayors will be essential to addressing the climate crisis, making vital adaptations to cities to make them more bearable in a warming world ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457150-mayors-are-the-leaders-we-need-to-help-fight-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T16:55:25Z **AI simulations of 1000 people accurately replicate their behaviour**
Using GPT-4o, the model behind ChatGPT, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, in an effort to create an alternative to focus groups and polling ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457233-ai-simulations-of-1000-people-accurately-replicate-their-behaviour/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T16:00:52Z **Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found**
A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the worlds in our solar system came into being ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456887-planet-10-times-the-size-of-earth-is-one-of-the-youngest-ever-found/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T16:00:39Z **IBM entangled two quantum chips to work together for the first time**
IBM has bet big on a modular approach to building quantum computers, and now it has successfully linked two quantum chips together to operate as a single device, a key step towards that goal ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456542-ibm-entangled-two-quantum-chips-to-work-together-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T16:00:23Z **Google DeepMind AI can expertly fix errors in quantum computers**
Quantum computers could get a boost from artificial intelligence, thanks to a model created by Google DeepMind that cleans up quantum errors ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457207-google-deepmind-ai-can-expertly-fix-errors-in-quantum-computers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-20T16:00:00Z **Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?**
Unbearable heat in China’s megacities reveals the future many of us face, but also suggests ways we can adapt ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435180-100-extreme-heat-is-now-making-cities-unlivable-how-can-we-survive-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-21T10:00:24Z **Super-bright black holes could reveal if the universe is pixelated**
Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects near the edges of unusually bright black holes ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456588-super-bright-black-holes-could-reveal-if-the-universe-is-pixelated/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-21T13:00:12Z **We've taken a photo of a star in another galaxy for the first time**
Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457273-weve-taken-a-photo-of-a-star-in-another-galaxy-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-21T17:30:04Z **World's thinnest spaghetti won't please gourmands but may heal wounds**
Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457260-worlds-thinnest-spaghetti-wont-please-gourmands-but-may-heal-wounds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-21T15:30:14Z **A sliver of lab-grown wood has been made from stem cells**
Growing wood directly from stem cells could offer an alternative to cutting threatened hardwood trees, but it isn't clear if it has same properties as actual wood ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456589-a-sliver-of-lab-grown-wood-has-been-made-from-stem-cells/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-21T21:47:30Z **Common chemical in drinking water hasn't been tested for safety**
Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down into a compound that may have negative health impacts ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457519-common-chemical-in-drinking-water-hasnt-been-tested-for-safety/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-21T19:41:50Z **Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans**
Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group dates back 550 million years ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457090-worm-like-fossil-is-the-oldest-ancestor-of-spiders-and-crustaceans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T07:00:31Z **What to know about creatine, the gym supplement with wide benefits**
Creatine is commonly associated with athletes and bodybuilders, but the popular supplement seems to have broad benefits on everything from ageing to brain function ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456786-what-to-know-about-creatine-the-gym-supplement-with-wide-benefits/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T11:00:26Z **Crushed rocks outpace giant fans in race to remove CO2 from air**
New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate remains negligible ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457077-crushed-rocks-outpace-giant-fans-in-race-to-remove-co2-from-air/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T10:50:40Z **Stunning Never Let Me Go stage version asks the big questions**
Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly adapted for the stage ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457603-stunning-never-let-me-go-stage-version-asks-the-big-questions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T09:30:03Z **Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time**
Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457457-having-a-baby-on-mars-you-may-be-in-for-a-difficult-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T09:00:51Z **Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads**
There is no evidence that advertisers use covert recordings of conversations to target people with adverts, an accusation widely denied by the industry, and yet this belief persists ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457333-majority-of-people-believe-their-devices-spy-on-them-to-serve-up-ads/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T14:42:05Z **Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're not from space**
The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457490-bacteria-found-in-asteroid-sample-but-theyre-not-from-space/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-22T16:00:34Z **Risk algorithm used widely in US courts is harsher than human judges**
When deciding whether to let people await trial at home or in jail, US judges can use a risk score algorithm. But it often makes harsher recommendations than humans do ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456603-risk-algorithm-used-widely-in-us-courts-is-harsher-than-human-judges/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-25T08:00:19Z **Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain mystery radio flashes**
Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with highly magnetised neutron stars ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457391-exploding-interstellar-space-rocks-could-explain-mystery-radio-flashes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-25T12:00:03Z **Why gene editors want to treat fetuses when they are still in the womb**
Gene editing in the womb could be more effective than the same treatment after birth, as fetal cells are better able to take up the mRNAs coding for the necessary genetic machinery ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456378-why-gene-editors-want-to-treat-fetuses-when-they-are-still-in-the-womb/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-25T16:01:00Z **How a unique puppy kindergarten lab put the science into dog training**
Most dogs aren't bred to feel at ease in our homes, but scientists studying puppy cognition have found ways you can help yours adapt ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435190-500-how-a-unique-puppy-kindergarten-lab-put-the-science-into-dog-training/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-25T16:00:09Z **This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted New York City river**
Projects to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by making the oceans less acidic are popping up all over the world – New Scientist visited one in New York City’s East river ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457314-this-start-up-is-removing-carbon-from-a-polluted-new-york-city-river/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-25T18:00:42Z **Older people may have better immunity against bird flu virus**
Most people born before 1968 have antibodies against flu viruses similar to the H5N1 strain circulating today, which might lower their risk of severe illness ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457782-older-people-may-have-better-immunity-against-bird-flu-virus/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-25T21:20:20Z **What will it take to solve our planet's plastic pollution crisis?**
Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic pollution — here's what experts say it needs to include ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457800-what-will-it-take-to-solve-our-planets-plastic-pollution-crisis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-26T12:00:50Z **Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that's good for the planet**
With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries might offer cheap energy storage with less environmental impact ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457816-salt-batteries-are-finally-shaping-up-thats-good-for-the-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-26T16:00:04Z **Forest schools don't actually boost most children's mental health**
Swapping classrooms for the woods doesn't appear to improve most children's mental health, but they may still enjoy it ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457733-forest-schools-dont-actually-boost-most-childrens-mental-health/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-26T16:00:00Z **The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death**
Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435193-700-the-radical-treatments-bringing-people-back-from-the-brink-of-death/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-26T15:35:24Z **Super-bright black holes could reveal if the universe is pixelated**
Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects near the edges of unusually bright black holes ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456588-super-bright-black-holes-could-reveal-if-the-universe-is-pixelated/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-26T18:39:27Z **How safe is the US food supply?**
Food in the US has a bad rap thanks to outbreaks caused by bacteria, plus processing, additives and food dyes, but the food supply is actually much less risky than people think ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457329-how-safe-is-the-us-food-supply/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-26T18:00:27Z **Changing a single number among billions can destroy an AI model**
Today's huge AI models are composed of several billion numbers known as weights and changing just one of them can destroy their ability to function, leading to “gibberish” output ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456168-changing-a-single-number-among-billions-can-destroy-an-ai-model/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T10:00:06Z **Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years**
Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable and long-lasting system ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457948-record-breaking-diamond-storage-can-save-data-for-millions-of-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T16:00:40Z **Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' rise to power**
An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take over the world in the early Jurassic ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458090-fossilised-droppings-tell-the-story-of-dinosaurs-rise-to-power/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T16:00:00Z **We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of electromagnetism**
Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we increasingly suspect that, actually, that's not true after all ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435190-100-we-may-be-about-to-solve-the-greatest-riddle-of-electromagnetism/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T20:20:21Z **Bird flu may be adapting to become more infectious to humans**
Three people in North America without known animal exposures have tested positive for the bird flu virus H5N1, and samples from two of them suggest the virus is adapting to humans ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458133-bird-flu-may-be-adapting-to-become-more-infectious-to-humans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T19:15:05Z **Ocean acidification is reaching deeper waters**
Rising carbon dioxide levels are driving an increase in the ocean’s acidity – and this change is sinking deeper as emissions increase, putting even more marine organisms at risk ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458149-ocean-acidification-is-reaching-deeper-waters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T18:00:12Z **Robot balloons are snapping centimetre-resolution photos of the US**
Near Space Labs’s autonomous balloon fleet is already taking high-resolution images of the ground, and its range will expand to the entire continental US early next year ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457923-robot-balloons-are-snapping-centimetre-resolution-photos-of-the-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T18:00:00Z **Banning scary-sounding ideas can comfort but does more harm than good**
Recent developments in AI and neurological research may prompt concern. However, placing outright bans on such research is unlikely to be the best solution - and may hold us back ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435192-600-banning-scary-sounding-ideas-can-comfort-but-does-more-harm-than-good/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-27T17:58:19Z **How could Ukraine stop Russia’s new Oreshnik missile?**
Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple high-speed projectiles, making it challenging but not impossible to intercept ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458117-how-could-ukraine-stop-russias-new-oreshnik-missile/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-28T13:00:43Z **A little bit of fear can bring down high levels of inflammation**
Feeling scared seems to reduce elevated levels of inflammation, which may help explain why some people enjoy a haunted attraction ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458070-a-little-bit-of-fear-can-bring-down-high-levels-of-inflammation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-28T20:00:01Z **The way Cheerios stick together has inspired a new kind of robot**
Tiny robots designed to carry out environmental or industrial tasks could be powered by tricks involving surface tension ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457954-the-way-cheerios-stick-together-has-inspired-a-new-kind-of-robot/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-28T19:00:53Z **Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side**
Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived there at the same time about 1.5 million years ago ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458237-ancient-footprints-show-how-early-human-species-lived-side-by-side/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-28T18:00:11Z **Social media algorithms can change your views in just a single day**
The content you see on social media is often determined by an algorithm - and it turns out that these algorithms can rapidly change your views ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458226-social-media-algorithms-can-change-your-views-in-just-a-single-day/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-28T17:33:09Z **AI can analyse a decomposing body to help pinpoint the time of death**
Determining when someone died based on their decomposing body is a subjective task, but artificial intelligence could bring some objectivity to the process ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457953-ai-can-analyse-a-decomposing-body-to-help-pinpoint-the-time-of-death/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-29T11:01:47Z **Life on Mars could be surviving in an area deep underground**
The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath the surface ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458263-life-on-mars-could-be-surviving-in-an-area-deep-underground/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-11-29T15:04:52Z **Swarms of cyborg cockroaches could be manufactured by robots**
Robotic equipment can implant electrodes into cockroaches and connect them to an electronic backpack, making it feasible to mass-produce biorobots for search missions ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458397-swarms-of-cyborg-cockroaches-could-be-manufactured-by-robots/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-02T16:35:00Z **Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life**
Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435201-700-exoplanet-plate-tectonics-a-new-frontier-in-the-hunt-for-alien-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-02T16:00:56Z **Temporary scalp tattoo can be used to record brain activity**
EEG recordings used in neurology could be made simpler by replacing the usual electrodes, wires and gels with a tattoo printed onto the scalp ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458409-temporary-scalp-tattoo-can-be-used-to-record-brain-activity/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-02T15:00:09Z **Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future**
The last two years have seen unprecedented falls in the levels of sea ice around Antarctica, which serves as a protective wall for the continent's huge ice sheets. Researchers are now racing to understand the global impact of what could happen next ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458211-antarctica-is-in-crisis-and-we-are-scrambling-to-understand-its-future/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-03T11:54:49Z **An asteroid will dramatically burn up in Earth's atmosphere today**
Astronomers have spotted a 70-centimetre asteroid that is set to hit the atmosphere above northern Siberia at 4.15 pm GMT, making a fireball in the sky ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458602-an-asteroid-will-dramatically-burn-up-in-earths-atmosphere-today/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-03T12:00:22Z **Why do Ozempic and Wegovy seem to treat everything?**
From Alzheimer's disease to depression to heart disease, Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist drugs appear to offer a solution. Can one type of drug really tackle so many conditions, and if so, how does it actually work? ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456669-why-do-ozempic-and-wegovy-seem-to-treat-everything/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-03T16:00:00Z **How monitoring your sweat could reveal the state of your health**
From perfecting your hydration levels to tracking hormones, analysing your perspiration can give new insights into your fitness and how to improve it ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435201-600-how-monitoring-your-sweat-could-reveal-the-state-of-your-health/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-03T19:00:26Z **New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together**
Parts from dozens of different individual comb jellies have been fused together to create strange new animals unlike anything seen before ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458586-new-forms-of-animals-made-by-fusing-several-comb-jellies-together/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T10:17:15Z **The best new science fiction books of December 2024**
There are slimmer sci-fi pickings than usual at the end of the year, but gems can still be found, whether that’s a visit to George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card universe, or a graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458642-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-december-2024/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T18:00:00Z **The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism**
Alternative thinking on the evolution of species is a welcome way to highlight some neglected aspects of life on Earth, but it doesn't mean Darwin was wrong ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435202-700-the-theory-of-evolution-can-evolve-without-rejecting-darwinism/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T16:00:50Z **Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs**
An analysis of ancient cuneiform texts suggests people thought of emotions in a different way almost 3000 years ago, showing how culture influences our most intimate experiences ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458952-mesopotamians-felt-happiness-in-their-liver-and-anger-in-their-thighs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T16:00:48Z **DeepMind AI predicts weather more accurately than existing forecasts**
The latest weather forecasting AI model from Google DeepMind can beat the leading providers more than 97 per cent of the time, and it is quicker and cheaper to run ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458465-deepmind-ai-predicts-weather-more-accurately-than-existing-forecasts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T16:00:17Z **Flying robot leaps upwards and then takes to the air like a bird**
A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458864-flying-robot-leaps-upwards-and-then-takes-to-the-air-like-a-bird/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T16:00:00Z **The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate**
Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435201-500-the-extraordinary-ways-species-control-their-own-evolutionary-fate/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T14:31:07Z **What ancient stalagmites can tell us about life on a hotter Earth**
Wildfires are already changing as a result of climate change but we don’t know what will happen as our planet gets even warmer. The answer could be hidden underground ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458714-what-ancient-stalagmites-can-tell-us-about-life-on-a-hotter-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-04T21:00:47Z **Implant made with living neurons connects to mouse brains**
In a unique demonstration of brain implants that incorporate living cells, the devices were able to connect with the brains of live mice ⌘ [Read more](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458778-implant-made-with-living-neurons-connects-to-mouse-brains/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home) 2024-12-05T06:00:37Z **'Killer' cells explain differences in immunity between the sexes**
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