Elon Musk's SpaceX is expected to launch its Starship rocket from Boca Chica, Texas, later today
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369173-starship-livestream-watch-spacex-launch-the-most-powerful-rocket-ever/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Procrastination can steal hours of our time, but the latest research has some answers about how to reduce it, finds David Robson in his new ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834341-100-thief-of-time-how-to-stop-procrastinating-and-start-doing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Sunflower pollen’s spiky texture dramatically reduces the prevalence of a widespread gut parasite in eastern bumblebees
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368862-the-spiky-shape-of-sunflower-pollen-may-clear-bee-guts-of-parasite/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A programme to test robotic vehicles in the Mojave Desert shows that they can autonomously navigate rocky landscapes to get to their destina..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368848-us-military-is-testing-high-speed-driverless-vehicles-on-rough-terrain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The songs that Australian zebra finches hear before they have hatched influence which birds they choose as singing instructors when growing ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368612-zebra-finches-pick-singing-coaches-based-on-songs-they-hear-as-embryos/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

You have a decent chance of seeing shooting stars from anywhere in the world on 19 April and during the Lyrids meteor shower peak in the ear..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369136-how-to-watch-the-lyrids-meteor-shower-between-15-and-29-april/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An artificial intelligence can detect if people have had at least 7 hours of sleep or just 3 hours with 77 per cent accuracy, based on the t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368838-ai-can-tell-if-you-are-sleep-deprived-by-listening-to-your-voice/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The state of California is trying to eradicate invasive populations of South American nutria, whose burrows can damage levees and earthen da..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368873-giant-invasive-rodents-could-make-californias-floods-worse/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Two distinct groups of neurons underlie different types of itching sensations in mice, and both work together to fuel chronic itchiness
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368389-two-brain-pathways-identified-that-govern-the-urge-to-itch/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A well in Nebraska is the first in the world to have been drilled in search of naturally occurring geologic hydrogen, but tests to determine..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369083-worlds-first-drilling-project-to-seek-natural-hydrogen-hits-a-snag/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The US has made a medication that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses available without prescription – it will no doubt prevent some deaths, b..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368236-why-expanding-access-to-narcan-in-the-us-wont-solve-the-opioid-crisis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From sheep grazing in a field of solar panels to natural wine chilling, Islands of Energy by photographer Luigi Avantaggiato captures the gr..
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What makes a great new trait evolve and then stay dormant for years? Andreas Wagner's new book explores the innovations of nature – and huma..
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Seeing whether sperm is capable of puncturing, and ultimately fertilising, an egg would help people choose the type of fertility treatment w..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368470-test-showing-if-sperm-can-puncture-an-egg-may-guide-fertility-therapy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study in care homes found that preparing meals with potassium-enriched salt, instead of regular salt, lowered the blood pressure of people..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368887-swapping-table-salt-for-a-potassium-alternative-cuts-blood-pressure/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The warming climate is causing soils to lose their moisture more quickly, resulting in damaging, rapid-onset droughts
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368764-europe-to-become-a-hotspot-for-flash-droughts-caused-by-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evoluti..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368938-early-break-up-of-eastern-african-forests-shaped-our-ape-ancestors/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

More like a village than a city, Mastodon has less cruelty and bad-faith debates than Twitter, in my experience Could it be a social media p..
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A malaria vaccine that is 77 per cent effective in clinical trials has been approved for use in children 3 to 5 years old, the group most vu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369067-ghana-is-the-first-country-to-approve-highly-effective-malaria-vaccine/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mexican spadefoot toad embryos that sense lots of shrimp in the water before they are born grow bigger and stronger jaws, ready for their fi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368343-tadpole-embryos-grow-strong-jaws-if-they-sense-shrimp-in-the-water/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Heavy rain has deluged parts of Florida, triggering the total shutdown of Fort Lauderdale airport. Here's what we know about the situation a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368994-florida-floods-how-much-rain-has-fallen-and-could-it-happen-again/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Through staving off dementia symptoms, boosting brainpower and even being a different version of yourself, speaking many languages is a grea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834340-500-the-power-of-language-review-what-speaking-many-languages-can-do/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It can be hard to explain the realities of the natural world to children, but we need to acknowledge the suffering of wild things, says Rich..
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The JUICE mission to explore three of Jupiter’s icy moons and examine whether they have the right conditions for life is launching on 13 Apr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368832-juice-livestream-watch-the-launch-of-esas-mission-to-jupiters-moons/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People who work in the wine industry may have fewer and less diverse bacteria in their nose compared with non-vocational wine drinkers, whic..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368212-wine-experts-unique-nasal-microbiome-may-affect-their-smell-and-taste/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A mathematical model based on observing yellow anacondas in the lab shows that if they are light and muscular enough, they can jump away fro..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368100-some-anacondas-can-perform-a-strange-s-shaped-leap-and-now-we-know-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mice that received gut microbes from children with epilepsy on the ketogenic diet were protected from seizures. The finding suggests the mic..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368327-keto-diet-may-treat-epilepsy-by-changing-the-gut-microbiome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers have put a sapphire crystal containing quadrillions of atoms into a superposition of quantum states, bringing quantum effects in..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368306-a-macroscopic-amount-of-matter-has-been-put-in-a-quantum-superposition/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Jupiter’s icy moons are thought to host buried oceans that could have the right conditions for life, and the European Space Agency’s JUICE m..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368553-the-juice-mission-to-explore-jupiters-ocean-moons-is-about-to-launch/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Entangled photons of light have been sent through a loop of conventional optical fibre under the noisy New York streets – a starting point t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368353-an-unhackable-quantum-internet-is-being-built-in-new-york-city/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Wind and solar reached a record 12 per cent of global electricity generation in 2022 - and look set to keep growing
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368526-emissions-from-global-electricity-generation-may-have-now-peaked/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Some planets outside our solar system are thought to be tidally locked, with one side always facing their star, creating a world divided int..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368055-exoplanets-with-a-permanent-day-side-may-sometimes-flip-into-night/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on 11 April sent plumes of volcanic ash many kilometres into the ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368480-shiveluch-volcano-eruption-in-russia-smothers-nearby-villages-in-ash/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

High-resolution imagery has revealed that sandgrouse have tightly-coiled filaments in their feathers that unfurl when wet, allowing them tra..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368372-sandgrouse-have-a-special-trick-for-carrying-water-to-their-fledglings/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Elastic tendons let seahorses suck in water around eight times faster than they could using muscle power alone
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368540-seahorses-have-a-super-strong-gulp-thanks-to-two-spring-like-tendons/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

There is probably a plane of knowledge beyond the grasp of human minds. But mathematician and physicist David Wolpert says it is still possi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834340-100-physicist-david-wolpert-on-how-to-study-concepts-beyond-imagination/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

As the smallest planet in the solar system, and the closest to the sun, Mercury is hard to spot - but 11 April offers potentially good viewi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367734-tonight-is-your-best-chance-to-see-mercury-in-the-night-sky/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Birds can see in ultraviolet, so a form of camouflage made using natural plant dyes that helps conceal objects in both visible and UV light ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367063-ultraviolet-camo-made-from-natural-plant-dyes-could-help-bird-hunters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Reaching the maximum feeding capacity from current agricultural land would require a global shift to plant-based diets and vast amounts of i..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368195-farmland-could-feed-20-billion-people-but-it-might-wreck-the-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A three-year drought in Cape Town, South Africa, may have been worsened by high-income people filling their swimming pools and irrigating th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368197-rich-people-use-so-much-water-that-it-is-threatening-the-global-supply/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Crab nebula is one of the most thoroughly studied cosmic objects ever, but new observations have revealed that it’s far more complex tha..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368361-x-ray-map-of-the-crab-nebula-reveals-strange-pockets-of-turbulence/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Quantum theory, and the world of subatomic particles and forces it describes, has a daunting reputation for strangeness. And yet, with the r..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834333-500-come-explore-the-quantum-realm-it-isnt-as-confusing-as-it-seems/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A technique to 3D print conductive circuits directly into living organisms could one day be used in humans
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367949-shapes-3d-printed-into-living-worms-could-be-future-of-brain-implants/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

As far as we know, there are three main ingredients required for life: liquid water, an energy source and complex chemistry. Do Europa or En
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367584-what-are-the-prospects-for-life-on-the-icy-moons-europa-and-enceladus/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Planting asparagus is a long-term investment in good eating, but your patience will eventually be rewarded with a crop that is tastier than ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734331-500-how-to-grow-asparagus-and-why-it-takes-so-long/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A device made of cylinders tethered to the ocean floor could lessen the ferocity of waves, preventing them from eroding the shore
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367297-underwater-pendulums-could-calm-waves-and-reduce-coastal-erosion/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The rate of evaporation at US reservoirs is speeding up, and could significantly increase by the middle of the century if emissions continue..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367347-us-reservoirs-are-evaporating-more-quickly-because-of-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It has been thought that a period of rapid growth in adolescence is unique to humans, but markers in urine suggest male chimpanzees in the w..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367440-chimpanzees-may-have-an-adolescent-growth-spurt-like-humans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Studying donated embryonic and fetal brains has shown some of the genetic pathways involved in certain conditions, such as schizophrenia
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367748-roots-of-five-medical-conditions-shown-in-map-of-the-developing-brain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Turning a legendary environmental non-fiction book into a video game is an ambitious project. It opens as a ladybird dies in a fog of DDT, b..
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