Mid-sized black holes are harder to spot than their smaller or supermassive cousins, but powerful bursts of radiation from a faraway galaxy ..
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Synthetic cells designed in 2016 have been modified through the addition of seven genes so they can grow and divide just like natural bacter..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272899-artificial-life-made-in-lab-can-grow-and-divide-like-natural-bacteria/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Triassic dinosaurs that existed at the time were much smaller than other contemporary creatures, many not much bigger than a cow
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272135-did-you-know-triassic-dinosaurs-werent-very-big/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The pandemic has driven home the connections between access to green space and our physical and mental health - we should use this to reinve..
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A wildlife refuge on the US-Mexico border is home to nearly 500 species of bees, the densest aggregation of bee species anywhere in the world
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272581-nearly-500-bee-species-are-thriving-in-a-small-patch-of-us-desert/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Many species of pollinating insects are in decline in the UK. Here's how home gardeners can help turn things around with the right plants, s..
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Coping with the hay fever season in north-west Europe is set to get harder, with climate change potentially increasing the severity of the p..
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Since the 1990s, hundreds of bald eagles have died across the south-eastern US – now we know it is because their prey were laced with bromid..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272670-mysterious-death-of-bald-eagles-in-us-explained-by-bromide-poisoning/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A type of domestic rabbit called sauteur d’Alfort cannot hop and instead learns to walk on its front legs with its hind legs in the air – al..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272406-some-rabbits-walk-on-their-front-feet-with-their-back-legs-in-the-air/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Swimming robots the size of bacteria can be knocked off course by particles in the fluid they are moving through, but an AI algorithm learns..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272495-tiny-swimming-robots-reach-their-target-faster-thanks-to-ai-nudges/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A microbe called Carpediemonas membranifera lacks a key set of proteins thought essential for copying DNA, and therefore for reproduction
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272080-microbe-somehow-survives-without-key-proteins-for-replicating-its-dna/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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Birds are known to have a higher brain cell density than mammals – now we know that bees have an even higher density, but ants have fewer ce..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272200-bees-have-higher-brain-cell-density-than-birds-but-ants-dont/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

More than half of people in France, Germany and Spain believe that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is unsafe, according to a YouGov poll, as ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272162-europeans-get-cold-feet-over-covid-19-vaccines-as-third-wave-hits/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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Physicists looking for something to do during lockdown turned to studying garden hoses, and have used their findings to explain how a rare f..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272017-garden-hoses-help-explain-why-mammals-can-maintain-stiff-erections/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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An embryo can reverse signs of ageing and appear younger than the fertilised egg from which it arose. This almost paradoxical finding sugges..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272022-embryos-reverse-ageing-to-become-younger-than-when-they-first-formed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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The Firefox and Chrome web browsers are effectively as fast as each other, but people view Firefox as quicker if they read news coverage sug..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271952-reading-about-firefox-makes-it-seem-a-faster-web-browser-than-chrome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney knows a thing or two about the world’s financial markets. His call for a radical shift in how th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933263-500-yes-the-global-finance-system-must-reform-to-avert-a-climate-disaster/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Do the spring and autumn equinoxes give us days and nights of the same length? It isn't so simple, says Abigail Beall in this month's Starga..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933262-600-what-is-the-spring-equinox-and-is-it-something-worth-celebrating/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Preserved DNA from animals that lived over 2400 years ago suggests that present-day llamas and alpacas are descended in part from an extinct..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271982-llamas-and-alpacas-carry-genes-from-mysterious-ghost-relatives/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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A Mexican fossil belongs to a shark that lived more than 90 million years ago and had wings like a manta ray, which may have helped it swim ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271442-bizarre-manta-shark-slowly-cruised-the-oceans-93-million-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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The partial skeleton of a 6-metre-long ankylosaurid, excavated from the Gobi desert, suggests the armoured herbivore was adapted to digging ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271832-giant-armoured-dinosaur-may-have-dug-in-the-ground-for-food-and-water/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The overwhelming majority of people surveyed in 10 low and middle-income countries said they would take a covid-19 vaccine, in the first stu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271540-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-in-poorest-countries-is-lower-than-in-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The US won't be following the UK's example of extending the interval between covid-19 vaccine doses amid concerns it could increase risk of ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933263-700-us-refuses-to-extend-time-between-coronavirus-vaccine-doses/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Structures that model early human embryonic development, created from reprogrammed skin cells, could be used to study infertility, early mis..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271680-human-skin-cells-altered-to-mimic-early-stage-of-embryo-development/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Tiny organoids that function like human tear glands have been grown in the lab – eventually they could be transplanted into people to treat ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271440-miniature-human-tear-glands-grown-in-a-lab-cry-real-tears-just-like-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

More countries suspend the coronavirus jab over fears of blood clots, despite EU regulators remaining firmly convinced that the benefits of ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271478-no-indication-astrazeneca-vaccine-causes-blood-clots-says-regulator/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The bodies of people buried in two mass graves in Rennes have been identified as soldiers belonging to opposing armies who fought in the Sie..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271481-mass-graves-in-france-belonged-to-opposing-soldiers-in-medieval-war/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Industrial automation raises wages for men and women because of productivity increases, but could erode progress made over recent years to n..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271365-robots-increase-the-gender-pay-gap-despite-raising-wages-overall/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Often overlooked as just a mark of identity, fingerprints actually give us our precise sense of touch through nerve endings in the fingerpri..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271320-fingerprint-ridges-carry-nerve-endings-that-make-us-hypersensitive/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Our early human ancestors ate more meat than their hominin forerunners – and some researchers think their hunting strategies offer a c..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271316-early-humans-may-have-turned-to-small-game-after-wiping-out-big-beasts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Varying national approaches to dealing with the coronavirus and variance in how people respond to vaccines put new hurdles on the path to be..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933253-700-vaccination-isnt-the-quick-coronavirus-solution-many-of-us-hoped-for/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Pacific hemisphere is losing heat from Earth's interior faster than the opposite hemisphere, probably because of where the Pangaea super..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271233-one-side-of-earths-interior-is-losing-heat-much-faster-than-the-other/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The UK government has failed to deploy an updated version of a face analysis algorithm used for checking passport pictures, despite knowing ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271078-uk-still-using-racially-biased-passport-tool-despite-available-update/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

One top trick to making great pizza at home means starting up to five days before you eat it. It’s all down to the science of fermentation, ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933252-800-how-to-make-fabulous-pizza-using-slow-science/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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A small sensor worn on the neck can monitor how much you move while sedentary and give a prompt to get up and exercise
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271135-small-device-could-warn-you-if-youve-been-too-still-at-your-desk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Chemical signatures in 3.7-billion-year-old basalt rocks from Greenland support the long-held theory that Earth was once almost entirely mol..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271279-signs-that-earth-was-once-almost-entirely-molten-found-in-ancient-rock/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Wild cheetah populations have declined drastically over the past century, with just 7100 cheetahs left in the wild – and trafficking is one ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271025-more-than-4000-cheetahs-have-been-trafficked-in-the-past-decade/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An app that uses fire simulations based on local geography, weather and vegetation can tell people how to avoid the path of a wildfire
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271023-fire-safety-app-simulates-wildfires-and-shows-a-route-to-avoid-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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Machine learning, a process used to train artificial intelligences, can take an extremely long time – but a quantum trick could massively sp..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270517-a-quantum-trick-with-photons-gives-machine-learning-a-speed-boost/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An ultra-thin glass screen that can smoothly go from transparent to displaying words could be used to make e-readers and billboards
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270883-ultra-thin-glass-screen-could-be-used-to-make-e-readers-or-billboards/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home