Working excessive hours has long been thought to increase the risk of depression – but after conducting the largest ever review of research ..
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Elephants that lived on the island of Sicily lost more than 85 per cent of their body mass over a period of 350,000 years before going extin..
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An algorithm from the 1990s used to encrypt mobile phone data was deliberately weakened to allow eavesdropping, claims a team of cryptanalys..
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There has been a sharp change in what some people consider healthy to eat and a lot of it flies in the face of the evidence, writes James Wo..
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The first detailed global map of river flow shows that more than half the world’s rivers stop flowing for at least one day a year and many c..
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Betelgeuse, usually one of the brightest stars in the sky, dimmed by about 65 per cent at the end of 2019, and now we may finally know what ..
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Being awestruck can bring a host of benefits from lowering stress to boosting creativity. But what exactly is awe, and how do we get more of
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One of the companies behind a new, French-designed nuclear reactor at Taishan in Guangdong, China, has written to the US government warning ..
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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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Clusters of galaxies in the universe are connected by colossal filaments that stretch across hundreds of millions of light years – and they ..
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We know highly processed foods are bad for us, yet they make up 60 per cent of people's diets in some Western countries – fortunately there ..
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At the centre of the Milky Way is an enormous bar of stars from which the spiral arms of the galaxy emanate, and its slowing rotation may he..
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The summer triangle is a beautiful pattern of stars, and this year Saturn and Jupiter will be lurking nearby. Wherever you are, Abigail Beal..
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The rate of galaxies merging 2 billion years after the big bang is 5 to 10 times more than predicted by theories of modified Newtonian dynam..
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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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Stress caused by climate change is making it harder for coral reefs to build their calcium carbonate skeletons, and may lead to their demise..
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Ear defenders that have been modified to collect alcohol given off by the skin of the ears could be an alternative to a breathalyser
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Some supermassive black holes blast out powerful winds that astrophysicists suspected could kill small neighbouring galaxies – but it turns ..
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We are finally getting to grips with why processed foods are unhealthy. What we’re learning has already triggered some governments to act – ..
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Gravitational wave observatories have spotted black holes that were too massive to be explained by our best models, and they may have formed..
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The moon may seem little more than a boring piece of rock, barely worth keeping. But it may be the reason for our existence. Join Sam as he ..
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Apple has announced a number of measures to protect the privacy of its users, which could hit advertising-supported online services hard and..
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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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The earliest genetic evidence for goat domestication comes fossils of goats that lived in the Zagros Mountains of Iran about 10,000 years ago
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Rotifers are small and squishy and do not look resilient, but one individual has endured about 24,000 years frozen in permafrost, and is now..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279992-tiny-animal-revived-after-24000-years-entombed-in-siberian-permafrost/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

AI taught digital players who start out able to only make random movements how to run, dribble a football, kick it into the goal and work as..
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A team including researchers at Google took a cubic millimetre of a woman's brain, sliced it incredibly thin and scanned it to create the mo..
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People who travel to countries with a higher prevalence of antibiotic resistance are unwittingly bringing genes for resistance home in their..
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Fancy making ice cream this summer? The secret to soft, creamy and delicious scoopfuls of the stuff lies in the complex science of freezing,..
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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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An estimated 1 million people reported experiencing long covid in the latest UK statistics, and 376,000 of them suspect they first caught th..
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As countries start to open their borders to holiday-makers, confusion remains over which countries are safe, and what entrance requirements ..
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Physicist Carlo Rovelli has made pioneering contributions to the science of quantum theory and consciousness. Our exclusive short film "The ..
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People who obtain information from social media sites such as YouTube are less willing to be vaccinated than others, findings from a UK stud..
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The world has undoubtedly got a fake news problem – there is a compelling case for setting up an international body to combat it, writes Gra..
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A man has been infected with the H10N3 strain of bird flu in China, but the risk of the virus spreading between people is thought to be low
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After illegal dumps in Turkey, plastic waste imports were banned from the country, which takes most of the UK's recycling – which could spur..
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A secure quantum internet is one step closer thanks to a quantum memory made from a crystal that can store entangled photons
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Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is a hopeful take on coping with the fall-out of a deadly pandemic, set in a world featuring human-animal hybrids
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279084-sweet-tooth-review-an-eccentric-mix-of-sci-fi-and-fantasy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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The highest-resolution image of atoms has been captured, doubling the resolution of an image made in 2018 by using an algorithm to reduce bl..
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Experts have warned that the UK government may have to reconsider plans to lift restrictions on 21 June with infection numbers rising
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279061-end-of-covid-19-lockdown-in-england-may-be-delayed-scientists-say/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Remembering which coronavirus variant is which just became simpler – the World Health Organization has announced a scheme for naming variant..
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Climate change caused 37 per cent of the heat-related deaths globally in the past three decades according to a new study – a reminder that g..
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A detector in Italy has observed what seem to be hints of strange dark matter particles for more than 20 years – but a similar detector in S..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278917-thrilling-hints-of-elusive-dark-matter-particles-are-starting-to-fade/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It is hard to know where people are directing their attention during video calls, but eye-tracking software could help
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The quantum internet will keep bank details secure but also let people plot crimes in complete secrecy unless democratic leaders swiftly imp..
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The debate over covid-19's origins rumbles on. What is the evidence for and against a lab leak? And what evidence will finally prove it one
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In the first of a new series of pandemic profiles, New Scientist talks to Hannah Ritchie, who reveals what it's like to provide presidents a..
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Hannah Ritchie from Our World In Data picks her top five charts that show how the coronavirus pandemic has played out across the world
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