In a trial of more than 16,000 people over 70, those who took a low-dose of aspirin every day were just under 10 per cent more likely to hav..
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Break-ups are more common in bird species with longer migrations, probably because partners return home at different times and don’t wait fo..
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The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb was a revelation, but 100 years later new scientific methods are painting an even richer picture of the ..
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Levels of immune system proteins in the vagina increase after having vaginal intercourse for the first time, suggesting the body is respondi..
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This is the time of year to spot the Hyades, named for weeping nymphs from Greek mythology because its appearance in the night sky marked th..
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A pacy documentary reveals the latest about Tutankhamun and Howard Carter, who discovered his tomb. It also revives vivid childhood memories..
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Lithium mining has been blamed for the drying out of a region in the Andes where the metal is naturally found – but drought may be the culpr..
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The outcome of state and national elections on 8 November will shape the next two years of policy on climate change, abortion and covid-19
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With the cost of renewables and batteries plummeting, some academics argue that the UK doesn't need to build new nuclear power stations to a..
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A strangely cool star that has been dead for more than 10 billion years contains levels of some elements that indicate it ate its own planets
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It's just over ten years ago that the Higgs boson was first discovered. Physicist Toyoko Orimoto writes that the particle could lead us to m..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344128-how-the-higgs-boson-could-reveal-the-fate-of-our-universe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The story of Tutankhamun and his tomb still amazes us. Palaeopathologist Bob Brier’s new book is an accessible guide to the story, but doesn..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634110-400-tutankhamun-and-the-tomb-that-changed-the-world-is-an-engaging-update/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Beyond King Tut, curated by the National Geographic Society, surrounds visitors with large-scale projections and animations of some of the t..
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The first commercial-scale plant for making methanol from carbon dioxide will save an estimated 500,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year compa..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345556-worlds-largest-plant-for-making-methanol-fuel-from-co2-opens-in-china/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A device that uses a piece of glass with little bumps on it can distinguish objects based on how they scatter light, removing the need for a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345685-glass-device-can-tell-objects-apart-without-needing-a-computer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The accelerometers in our smartphones collect information as we travel over bridges, and this can reveal if the structure is weakening and h..
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The US has seen a huge surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, mostly in young children. Two companies aim to make vaccines f..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345688-when-will-a-vaccine-for-rsv-be-available-in-the-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The plume ejected by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano in January entered the mesosphere, the layer of atmosphere above the stratosphere..
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X-ray observations show that a distant magnetar may have a surface made of a strange material somewhere between a solid and a fluid instead ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345521-a-weird-dead-star-may-have-a-solid-like-surface-made-of-iron-crystals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Cosmic neutrinos are tough to track – it has only been done once before – but researchers from the IceCube observatory in Antarctica have tr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345250-neutrinos-have-been-spotted-coming-from-a-strange-shrouded-galaxy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The first X-ray footage of a toad gulping down a meal reveals that its tongue recoils into its body further than it stretches out to grab pr..
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Buff-tailed bumblebees seem to prefer to play with wooden balls rather than simply bypass them en route to a snack
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345255-bumblebees-rolling-wooden-balls-may-be-first-evidence-of-insect-play/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Taiwan is where most of the world’s high-tech chips are made. Demand for the components is increasing, as is the associated environmental co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345448-emissions-from-worlds-chip-manufacturing-hub-are-growing-each-year/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From the Terracotta army to the Flores ‘Hobbit’, these are the discoveries that experts argue are more significant than the unearthing of Tu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344998-six-archaeological-discoveries-to-rival-tutankhamuns-tomb/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Multiple factors can contribute to different mental health conditions, but in the largest study of its kind, researchers suggest limited lig..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345327-light-exposure-may-be-linked-to-several-mental-health-conditions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Many foods thought to enhance our natural defences, such as orange juice and turmeric, don’t live up to the hype. Instead, the key to a heal..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634110-700-the-truth-about-the-foods-said-to-boost-your-immune-system/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

As Egypt prepares to host the next UN climate summit, a series of reports illustrate how much further countries must go to avoid catastrophi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345094-climate-warnings-highlight-the-urgent-need-for-action-ahead-of-cop27/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Putting back the clocks in November is linked to a spike in car collisions with deer in the US
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344401-annual-us-clock-change-kills-33-people-and-36500-deer-in-car-crashes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Birdwatch, an attempt to tackle misinformation on Twitter by providing additional context to false claims in tweets, appears to be working -..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345014-twitter-misinformation-project-may-be-at-risk-after-elon-musk-takeover/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A century on from the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, CT scans, 3D printers and virtual reality are bringing the world of the pharaohs – an..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634112-000-how-technology-is-revolutionising-our-understanding-of-ancient-egypt/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An retrofitted Black Hawk helicopter flew autonomously between mountains to deliver blood supplies in a simulated mission. It also picked up..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345517-unpiloted-military-helicopter-flies-134-km-in-simulated-mission/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An AI has been used to train robot dogs to toss cups into a garbage can or wipe a whiteboard with an eraser while cutting out hand-coding, w..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344914-having-ais-train-robot-dogs-to-balance-makes-them-a-lot-cheaper/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mohamed Nasr, Egypt’s chief climate negotiator, tells New Scientist that COP27 will focus on making sure existing promises are kept, rather ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345036-cop27-must-deliver-on-existing-promises-says-egypts-climate-diplomat/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Combining data on pollution concentrations and whale feeding habits has revealed that filter-feeding whales could be ingesting huge levels o..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344954-blue-whales-could-be-eating-10-million-pieces-of-plastic-every-day/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A malaria outbreak in Ethiopia earlier this year has been linked to an invasive species of mosquito that can persist throughout the dry seas..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345214-malaria-outbreak-in-ethiopia-linked-to-invasive-mosquito-from-asia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After a long hiatus, SpaceX’s enormous Falcon Heavy rocket has launched for the fourth time, carrying two secretive satellites from the US S..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345010-spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-just-launched-two-space-force-satellites/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Patterns of drought and deluge are common throughout history, but human-driven climate change is disrupting these cycles, making it more dif..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344912-the-us-megadrought-wont-just-end-it-will-change-the-land-forever/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

For hundreds of years it's been known that a mysterious third note can be heard when playing two notes together on a violin – now we know why
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344992-phantom-notes-played-by-violins-turn-out-to-be-a-real-sound/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Since the US Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion, the number of abortions performed in the US has declined overall but increased ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2345206-abortions-are-up-11-per-cent-in-us-states-where-it-is-still-legal/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Astronomers have found an unexpected asymmetry in stars escaping from their clusters, and it can't be easily explained by our standard theor..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344907-crooked-star-clusters-may-be-a-sign-that-einsteins-gravity-is-wrong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Ukraine has used drones in innovative ways throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, and may now be preparing to deploy machines capable of finding..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344966-will-ukraine-deploy-lethal-autonomous-drones-against-russia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A database of photos taken from 1886 to 2019 reveals that horn size has gradually decreased in five species of rhinoceros, probably due to p..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344748-rhino-horns-have-got-smaller-over-time-as-poachers-target-big-prizes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton says our universe is one of many – and she argues that we have already seen signs of those other universe..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-the-cosmologist-who-claims-to-have-evidence-for-the-multiverse/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

One of the brightest stars we see in the night sky has lost its outer layers of gas and now it is just a rare, stripped-back core
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344860-an-incredibly-bright-star-has-lost-its-gas-and-is-just-a-leftover-core/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Two neutron stars smashing together may produce a form of matter not seen before. If that happens, simulations suggest there would be a sign..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344898-gravitational-waves-could-reveal-the-existence-of-quark-matter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a city in Brazil, male mosquitoes were released that expressed a gene that meant their female offspring, which bite and transmit infectio..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344811-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-cut-the-insects-number-by-96-per-cent/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who campaigned to protect the rainforest, narrowly beat Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344713-brazil-election-lula-win-hailed-as-victory-for-the-amazon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The subvariants BQ.1.1 and XBB may somewhat evade prior immunity, however, further research is required
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344722-a-soup-of-omicron-subvariants-could-drive-the-next-covid-19-wave/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In 1992, a TV show petrified millions of UK viewers with a “live” investigation of a paranormal event. What happened next? Its writer, Steph..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344718-ghostwatch-interview-writer-of-cult-paranormal-tv-show-tells-all/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A year on from the make-or-break climate conference in Glasgow, nations have failed to make progress of cutting emissions. But there are rea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634103-500-cop27-causes-for-concern-and-hope-ahead-of-the-big-climate-summit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home