A machine that moulds scrap aluminium into automotive parts could help speed up production of electric vehicles while cutting down the indus..
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The coronavirus lockdowns presented a rare natural experiment to see what happens to wildlife collisions when the traffic declines drastical..
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It is thought that quantum computers will eventually be able to crack the encryption methods we use today, but exactly when this will happen..
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Now there is a way to use ink to write words or patterns in liquid, much as you might write on a solid surface, and the letters could concei..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370913-underwater-writing-technique-lets-you-draw-patterns-in-liquids/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

No matter where you live, Mars is currently taking a little stroll through Gemini, so it is a great time to get to know this constellation w..
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Augmenting the artificial intelligence GPT-4 with extra chemistry knowledge made it much better at planning chemistry experiments, but it re..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370923-chemists-are-teaching-gpt-4-to-do-chemistry-and-control-lab-robots/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Understanding the interactions between quantum physics and gravity within a black hole is one of the thorniest problems in physics, but quan..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370695-quantum-computers-could-simulate-a-black-hole-in-the-next-decade/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A suspense-filled new podcast series digs into biotech firm BioViva's claim that it successfully injected someone with experimental, anti-ag..
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The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may have blasted out a powerful burst of X-rays two centuries ago, possibly due t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370825-our-galaxys-black-hole-may-have-made-a-huge-x-ray-flare-205-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence for liquid water on the surface of Mars - and it probably began as snow or frost that melted into s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371296-it-may-have-been-snowing-on-mars-400000-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A spring heatwave across parts of southern Europe is seeing temperature records for April broken in many countries. Why is this happening, a
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Carl Woods's moving documentary My Everest tells the story of Max Stainton-Parfitt, who has cerebral palsy, and his epic expedition to Evere..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834361-100-my-everest-review-a-horseback-journey-to-the-worlds-highest-mountain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The pioneering work of Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, who trained in the late 19th century, is finally brought into conversation at the T..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834360-800-famed-abstract-artists-capture-nature-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The professional body for anaesthetists in the UK has produced hypnosis recordings for patients to listen to as they wait for their operatio..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370316-doctors-are-hypnotising-people-before-surgery-to-help-reduce-anxiety/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Computer simulations of a human brain under the influence of LSD show that entropy increases the most in regions responsible for processing ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370821-psychedelics-may-increase-entropy-in-the-brains-vision-centre/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The story of evolution spans over 3 billion years and shows how microscopic single-celled organisms transformed Earth and gave rise to compl..
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Balto had a varied ancestry, sharing genes with Siberian huskies, Greenland sledge dogs, Vietnamese village dogs and Tibetan mastiffs
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370811-baltos-genome-reveals-famed-sledge-dog-was-a-mutt/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A 2021 paper has got physicists discussing whether our inability to use classical physics to describe reality on a quantum scale is a human ..
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DNA analysis has revealed that a single-celled alga has a strange conglomeration of different organisms living inside it
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371017-evolutionary-oddball-has-seven-genomes-inside-a-single-cell/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

If we could detect them, cosmic neutrinos would paint a picture of the universe in the instant after it began. Physicist Martin Bauer has co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834360-100-what-was-the-universes-first-second-like-these-particles-can-tell-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Camera traps at two dens in Kenya have captured evidence of porcupines and warthogs occupying dens at the same time as their predators, spot..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370932-hyenas-seen-sharing-their-dens-with-porcupines-and-warthogs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Condensed matter is a huge field of physics that gets less attention than it deserves. We must show people its subtle magic if we are to dra..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834362-900-why-we-must-inspire-people-with-the-magic-of-condensed-matter-physics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From the development of agriculture to the global rise of religions, Jonathan Kennedy's book describes how infectious diseases have been a d..
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A recent outbreak of avian flu has killed 7 per cent of the wild population of California condors, and officials are bracing for the virus’ ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371018-bird-flu-has-killed-20-critically-endangered-california-condors/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An experimental update to Ethereum, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency, has led to a dramatic reduction in the energy used to secure ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369304-cryptocurrency-ethereum-has-slashed-its-energy-use-by-99-99-per-cent/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Astronomers have found one huge star eating another, but the smaller star is predicted to eventually become a black hole and go on to feed o..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371065-one-star-being-eaten-by-another-will-take-revenge-as-a-black-hole/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

One in five cars sold worldwide in 2023 will be electric, but a mass shift away from the internal combustion engine will bring its own probl..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370940-electric-vehicles-are-rapidly-taking-off-but-is-that-a-good-thing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Ultra-processed foods contain artificial ingredients that impact our health in ways that we are only just beginning to understand, says Chri..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834361-600-how-ultra-processed-food-harms-your-health-and-how-to-fix-the-problem/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A capsule that electrically stimulates stomach cells has been tested in pigs, and could one day help treat nausea, vomiting and lack of appe..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370823-pill-that-zaps-stomach-cells-could-treat-nausea-and-lack-of-appetite/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An image of a black hole called M87* shows never-before-seen details of matter falling into its centre and a jet shooting out of it, which h..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370616-detailed-image-of-supermassive-black-hole-shows-its-powerful-jet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Preserving ‘carbon crops’ with salt and storing them in dry landfill sites to stop them decomposing could be a low-cost, scalable climate so..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370956-can-we-use-salt-to-lock-away-carbon-for-thousands-of-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Millimetre-sized robots made of iron oxide and packed with yeast speed up fermentation of beer by swimming around in the fermenting containe..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370306-tiny-yeast-filled-robots-help-brew-beer-quickly-and-more-efficiently/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Twenty years of wildfires have cut down habitats and prey crucial to lynx in the north-west US, slashing the maximum number of cats that the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370604-wildfires-have-drastically-reduced-lynx-habitat-in-washington-state/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A lunar lander from Japanese company ispace attempted to become the first craft from a private firm to touch down safely on the surface of t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370784-japanese-hakuto-r-spacecraft-seems-to-have-crash-landed-on-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

By covering themselves in resin from spinifex grass, Australian assassin bugs improve their chances of catching flies and ants, in a rare ca..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370710-assassin-bugs-cover-themselves-in-sticky-plant-resin-to-trap-prey/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In the UK, 97 per cent of rivers have been modified, blocked and otherwise corralled to suit our needs - with enormous damage to wildlife. H..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834361-500-what-we-can-do-to-let-the-uks-tamed-rivers-flow-wild-and-free-again/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An analysis of melatonin gummies sold in the US showed that the majority were inaccurately labelled, containing up to 347 per cent the amoun..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370629-melatonin-gummies-in-the-us-contain-far-more-of-hormone-than-listed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It is widely thought that Rosalind Franklin was a victim whose work on DNA was stolen, but a letter and unpublished magazine story add to th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370348-was-dna-pioneer-rosalind-franklin-really-a-victim-of-scientific-theft/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers are working on edible computer chips to control robots that can operate inside the human body to precisely deliver drugs before ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368229-edible-computer-chips-could-control-digestible-drug-delivery-robots/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Hakuto-R lander from Japanese company ispace could become the first craft from a private firm to touch down safely on the surface of the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370639-japanese-firm-ispace-is-about-to-land-a-private-spacecraft-on-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A longer small intestine may improve the absorption of nutrients from our food, which may be required more during pregnancy or while breastf..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370336-womens-small-intestines-are-30-centimetres-longer-than-mens/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Brain scans show adolescents with more psychiatric symptoms have undergone less “pruning”, when unneeded synaptic connections between neuron..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370409-lack-of-neuron-pruning-may-be-behind-many-brain-related-conditions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An electrochemical transistor made from balsa wood opens up the possibility of embedding sensors and other electronic devices in plants, whi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370531-wood-transistor-could-let-us-embed-electronics-in-trees/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

More than 100 charged calcium atoms chilled to extremely low temperatures have been arranged into a two-dimensional crystal, which could be ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369971-2d-crystal-of-ultracold-charged-atoms-is-biggest-ever-created/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen, at 30 billion light years away. Researchers say it’s pro..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370594-jwst-has-spotted-the-most-distant-galaxy-cluster-ever-seen/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A material made from a protein in the silk of spiders can rapidly seal any breaks and would work in wearable electronics to monitor your hea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370344-synthetic-spider-silk-laced-with-graphene-can-heal-itself-when-wet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

If we could detect them, cosmic neutrinos would paint a picture of the universe in the instant after it began. Physicist Martin Bauer has co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834360-100-my-plan-to-spot-neutrinos-from-the-big-bang-would-transform-cosmology/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Hope orbiter got closer to Mars’s moons Deimos and Phobos than any probe before, collecting unprecedented images and data that hints at ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370417-amazing-images-of-marss-moon-deimos-snapped-by-emirates-mars-mission/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Companies creating the new generation of chatbots and other generative AI are shy about sharing their code and data. That has to change
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834353-700-regulating-ai-is-going-to-be-hard-but-big-tech-transparency-is-key/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Essays in English written by people from China were branded by text-analysis tools as being generated by artificial intelligence 61 per cent..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2370080-tools-to-spot-ai-essays-show-bias-against-non-native-english-speakers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home