A vertical farm built inside a greenhouse in Texas can produce hundreds of thousands of heads of lettuce with significantly less energy than..
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For the first time, researchers have spotted what appears to be a supermassive black hole flying away from its home galaxy at incredible spe..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368321-a-supermassive-black-hole-is-hurtling-away-from-its-home-galaxy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Warming in the eastern Pacific Ocean may change wind patterns above the Gulf of Mexico, leading to more hurricanes making landfall in the ea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368302-climate-change-may-drive-more-hurricanes-towards-the-us-east-coast/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From diving ants to jewel beetles, there are millions of insect species on Earth. A wonderful new guide from entomologist Steve Nicholls cel..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734331-100-alien-worlds-review-celebrating-earths-insects-as-they-disappear/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Astrophotographers Jason Guenzel and Andrew McCarthy took more than 90,000 separate images and five days to create this unique composite vie..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734330-800-dazzlingly-detailed-photo-of-a-record-solar-tornado-14-earths-tall/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Shrimp-like amphipods may be the architects of lines of holes at the bottom of the Bering Sea, which serve as a habitat to a wide range of f..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367605-mysterious-deep-sea-holes-may-be-burrows-of-tiny-shrimp-like-creatures/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Philosophers have long debated whether Earth is the best of all worlds. More powerful telescopes are finally giving us a better chance of an..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367350-are-there-planets-that-are-better-for-life-than-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A bizarre mode of reproduction discovered in yellow crazy ants results in males that have two separate sets of DNA in different parts of the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368226-male-crazy-ants-have-two-different-sets-of-dna-in-their-bodies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Existing methods for manipulating neurons with light require invasive surgical procedures, but a new technique can link neurons without the ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368224-neural-engineering-rewires-the-brain-using-light-to-change-behaviour/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We only have a few images of the rings around Uranus, but now the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a startling view
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368271-breathtaking-jwst-image-of-uranus-shows-rings-clouds-and-a-polar-cap/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We don't fully understand how the sun spits out high-energy particles during a solar flare, so researchers have created a miniature version ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368042-solar-flares-made-in-the-lab-could-teach-us-about-the-real-thing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The new status of Albania's river Vjosa is a major conservation milestone. But plans to open an airport on the river's delta next year soure..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734330-700-europes-first-wild-river-national-park-is-great-except-for-one-thing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mesothelean spiders diverged from all other spiders long before the first dinosaurs – three species of these living fossils have just been i..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367597-three-species-of-extremely-primitive-spider-discovered-in-china/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Climate scientists are being paired with top comedians in a new initiative aiming to drive home the message about the climate crisis. Here's..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834335-100-how-comedy-could-help-save-the-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A legacy of racism in Western medicine means healthcare is badly in need of decolonising. Annabel Sowemimo's book sets out why
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734331-000-divided-review-why-we-must-eliminate-racism-from-western-healthcare/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A bacterial treatment for coral stopped or slowed 68 per cent of infections with stony coral tissue loss disease in the lab, and it prevente..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368045-probiotics-shield-corals-from-deadly-tissue-loss-disease/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Get to grips with the deepest layer of reality we know of with our inventory of the subatomic realm, from known particles like quarks and th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367423-the-quantum-world-a-concise-guide-to-the-particles-that-make-reality/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

There are many smartphone apps that aim to identify plants from photographs, but tests have found that most are not very accurate
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367068-apps-that-identify-plants-can-be-as-little-as-4-per-cent-accurate/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Chemical analysis of metal sculptures made in West Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries provides evidence that may reshape the underst..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368057-famous-benin-bronzes-from-west-africa-used-metal-sourced-in-germany/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Beliefs in conspiracy theories can damage societies and individuals, but the only effective ways to counter them are impractical, according ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367358-we-dont-have-any-viable-way-of-countering-conspiracy-theories/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We know that long-term memory is fallible, and now it seems short-term memory can't be relied on either, if you are trying to recall an even..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367992-your-short-term-memory-can-be-unreliable-after-just-a-few-seconds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Latest figures show that some of the concerns about the vaccine may have been misfounded
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367981-should-more-countries-vaccinate-children-against-chickenpox/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Traces on the sea floor suggest an ancient ice sheet retreated at more than 600 metres per day at the end of the last glaciation, raising co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2368029-polar-ice-sheets-may-retreat-much-faster-than-previously-thought/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers filmed a dwarf reed snake doing an armless cartwheel to escape from danger by repeatedly launching its body forward in a coil
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367859-snakes-have-been-seen-doing-somersaults-when-theyre-scared/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study in 13 species of ungulates, including horses, sheep, deer and llamas, found that the most innovative individuals were also less inte..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367828-animals-that-are-social-outliers-seem-to-be-better-at-solving-problems/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A female Burmese python – an invasive species in the US – has laid a clutch of 96 eggs in one go, almost double the average for these snakes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367395-invasive-burmese-python-in-florida-lays-a-record-96-eggs-in-one-go/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Yanomami people of the Amazon have the world’s most diverse gut microbiome – and David Good, who is half Yanomami, thinks it might hold ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734331-400-my-amazon-familys-gut-microbes-may-help-us-fight-inflammatory-disease/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study in 13 species of ungulates, including horses, sheep, deer and llamas, found that the most innovative individuals were also less inte..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367828-socially-isolated-animals-seem-to-be-better-at-solving-problems/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Capuchins, which have hands similar to ours, are deceived by a sleight-of-hand trick. But marmosets, which lack opposable thumbs, aren’t foo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367658-monkeys-with-human-like-hands-can-be-fooled-by-sleight-of-hand-magic/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Putting two forms of semiconductor material called gallium oxide together seems to make it completely resistant to radiation
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367286-crystal-impervious-to-radiation-could-be-used-in-spaceship-computers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Pregnancies that last longer lead to larger babies and riskier births, but some genes have let mothers and fetuses find a middle ground
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367488-genetic-conflict-with-the-fetus-influences-when-women-give-birth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission, planned for late 2024: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367577-nasa-announces-four-astronauts-for-artemis-ii-mission-around-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Since 2012, Australia has detained hundreds of children seeking asylum, often for years. Now a review has revealed the lasting physical and ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366448-australias-detention-of-child-asylum-seekers-has-harmed-their-health/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

African savannah elephants play, care for their young and show social behaviours associated with domestic animals, despite never being domes..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367325-wild-african-elephants-may-have-domesticated-themselves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The double-slit experiment consists of light passing through two slits separated by a small space – now researchers have performed it with s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367388-light-interacts-with-its-past-self-in-twist-on-double-slit-experiment/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Popular plagiarism detection software used by many schools and universities worldwide is set to get an AI-detecting component in the wake of..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367322-plagiarism-tool-gets-a-chatgpt-detector-some-schools-dont-want-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The production of CFCs was banned globally in 2010, but researchers have detected rising levels of five CFC chemicals from unknown sources
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367525-ozone-destroying-cfc-chemicals-are-on-the-rise-again-despite-ban/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

With Russia's invasion ongoing, Ukraine is looking for ways that artificial intelligence can help treat the wounded
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366784-ukraine-is-building-an-ai-to-help-triage-shrapnel-injuries/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission, planned for late 2024: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367577-nasa-announced-the-four-astronauts-of-the-artemis-ii-mission/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Research suggesting that wrinkles could be a driver of ageing means we need to rethink the beauty industry – and who pays for it
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734323-000-banishing-wrinkles-could-boost-healthy-ageing-so-who-pays-the-bill/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A visualisation of nerve development and migrating stem cells in a 2-day-old chick embryo may help us understand how some congenital disease..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366454-stunning-image-shows-the-developing-nervous-system-in-a-chick-embryo/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Prairie strips, areas of wild vegetation within intensive farms, are associated with bee colonies collecting more pollen, growing larger and..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366535-honeybees-benefit-from-strips-of-native-plants-embedded-in-farmland/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The UK's rivers are in a shocking state, which could get worse with climate change and ongoing pollution. Researcher Joseph Holden at the Un..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366547-how-the-uks-rivers-are-being-overlooked-and-why-we-need-to-fix-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Nestled within the faintest of the zodiacal constellations, the Beehive cluster can be tricky to find, but these stars are worth the effort,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734321-500-how-to-spot-the-beehive-cluster-in-the-constellation-of-cancer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Children who go to bed later on the weekends than they do midweek have a larger waist circumference and a higher body mass index than those ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366059-later-bedtimes-on-weekends-are-linked-to-weight-gain-in-children/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A thin material made from seaweed can handle high temperatures but only takes a few weeks to break down in a composting bin
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366978-plastic-wrap-made-from-seaweed-withstands-heat-and-is-compostable/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Fungus farming by ants has evolved independently in populations separated by the Atlantic Ocean – the latest example was observed in cocktai..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366758-ants-independently-evolved-to-farm-fungus-at-least-twice/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

By quickly analysing where and when NBA players take their shots, an artificial intelligence could help their opponents gain an advantage
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2365191-ai-that-spots-basketball-players-weaknesses-could-help-underdogs-win/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Details of how the UK government is planning to reach net zero by 2050 reveal that the five biggest policy areas include decarbonising power
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367303-the-uk-is-making-five-big-bets-in-the-hope-of-hitting-net-zero-by-2050/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Simple calculations, such as factoring low numbers, can be made by mixing together differently shaped strands of DNA
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367161-computer-made-of-dna-works-out-prime-factors-of-6-and-15/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home