Most snailfish living in the deepest ocean realm known as the hadal zone are ghostly white with tiny eyes. But a newly described species has..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343622-surprisingly-bright-blue-fish-discovered-in-the-darkest-ocean-depths/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

17-year-old Indeever Madireddy sequenced the genome of his pet angelfish after it died – the first time this species has been sequenced
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343515-high-school-student-is-first-to-sequence-the-angelfish-genome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Bumblebees exposed to glyphosate performed worse in tests that required them to remember which colours were linked to rewards
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343463-glyphosate-weedkiller-impairs-learning-and-memory-in-bumblebees/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

By modifying the embryonic skin cells of mice, researchers created hair follicles that grew up to 3 millimetres long over one month
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343357-hair-follicles-grown-in-the-lab-in-a-step-towards-hair-loss-treatment/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William G..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343395-the-peripheral-review-william-gibsons-noir-debuts-on-amazon-prime/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Large Hadron Collider has helped determine the distribution of masses that the Higgs boson can have, a measure known as its width
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343313-higgs-bosons-width-measured-with-most-accuracy-yet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A device that uses differences in temperature to levitate could keep small sensors floating indefinitely in the stratosphere, such as for mo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343594-weather-sensors-could-float-forever-in-the-stratosphere-using-sunlight/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Shops are stocking up on pumpkins for Halloween. While I haven't always been a fan of squashes, I've been charmed by how such unlikely fruit..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342838-the-surprising-evolutionary-history-of-pumpkins-and-squashes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Splitting data into a spectrum of colour packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second vi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342833-chip-can-transmit-all-of-the-internets-traffic-every-second/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study of more than 100,000 adults found that motion sensor data from just 6 minutes of walking was enough to predict five-year mortality r..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343342-your-smartphone-could-be-used-to-estimate-your-risk-of-dying/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are revealing the asteroid’s history and may help us reconstruct..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343340-hayabusa-2-has-brought-back-gases-from-an-asteroid-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Better understanding the genetic variants associated with dyslexia could lead to a test that assesses whether a child is predisposed to have..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343471-dyslexia-linked-to-42-genetic-variants-in-biggest-study-of-its-kind/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In the 15 months after the Woolsey fire in Los Angeles, mountain lions were more likely to cross busy roads, travel further and move around ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343502-mountain-lions-outside-los-angeles-take-more-risks-after-wildfire/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A committee of MPs has urged the government to exploit the vast amount of underground heat beneath the UK, but realising that potential isn'..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343396-can-geothermal-energy-supply-all-of-the-uks-heating/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Smokers with a certain bacterium in their gut that breaks down nicotine have less severe liver disease, and tests in mice suggest this micro..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343109-gut-bacteria-may-reduce-harmful-effects-of-nicotine-on-the-liver/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A neural network forms the basis of many modern artificial intelligence set-ups, and now the concept has been applied to a purely mechanical..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342654-mechanical-neural-network-could-enable-smart-aircraft-wings-that-morph/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Large fish prefer to scrape against sharks over members of their own species, possibly to pry off parasites
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343044-tuna-use-sharks-as-back-scratchers-despite-risk-of-being-eaten/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We have been trying to harness the reaction that powers the stars for decades, and now private firms are promising commercial fusion within
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634090-100-can-a-slew-of-nuclear-fusion-start-ups-deliver-unlimited-clean-energy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Almost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their p..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343031-hundreds-of-russias-top-software-developers-may-have-left-the-country/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

DNA from 11 individuals who lived in Chagyrskaya cave around 51,000 years ago suggests women moved between groups and also shows a high leve..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342731-neanderthal-family-life-revealed-by-ancient-dna-from-siberian-cave/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Pillars of Creation are huge towers of gas and dust where stars are born, and the James Webb Space Telescope has peered through the clou..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343259-jwst-has-taken-a-star-studded-new-image-of-the-pillars-of-creation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Officials in Uganda have introduced a 21-day lockdown in the Mubende and Kassanda districts in a bid to tackle the ongoing outbreak
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343254-uganda-introduces-its-first-ebola-lockdown-while-it-waits-for-vaccines/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The particles inside a proton move around when exposed to electric and magnetic fields, causing it to deform, but this behaviour isn't well ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343098-protons-stretchiness-is-a-puzzle-for-particle-physicists/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The megadrought in south-western North America is the worst in more than 1000 years. These images from space reveal how much the severe dry ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342911-shocking-images-show-scale-of-megadrought-devastation-in-north-america/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a tournament of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy, two AIs built by Facebook's parent company Meta outplayed humans
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343027-ais-built-by-meta-beat-human-experts-at-diplomacy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People who have had covid-19 can have lingering impairments in multiple aspects of cognition, but memory appears to be less affected
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342931-covid-19-appears-to-affect-memory-less-than-other-aspects-of-cognition/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The energy crisis will reach a crunch point as winter begins in Europe, with governments hoping they can cut consumption fast enough to avoi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342908-can-europe-cut-its-electricity-consumption-enough-to-avoid-blackouts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Ecologists have started to recognise the competition between younger and older generations within the same species, with some startling conc..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634090-500-the-surprising-role-death-plays-in-the-stability-of-ecosystems/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit yellow fever and Zika, may be more attracted to people with high levels of carboxylic acids ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342940-acids-in-our-body-odour-make-some-people-more-attractive-to-mosquitoes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An analysis of the songs of male and female European robins adds to growing evidence that both sexes of songbirds are talented singers
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2341846-scientists-finally-realised-female-robins-sing-just-as-well-as-males/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Avian flu infection rates in the UK are six weeks ahead of this time last year, prompting officials to heighten biosecurity measures
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342840-uk-prepares-for-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-on-record-this-winter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Cycles may be 1.6 days longer in people who self-identify as Asian compared with their white non-Hispanic counterparts
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342719-menstrual-cycle-lengths-vary-between-people-of-different-ethnicities/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Online activities like gaming, social media and video calls have unique "nutritional" values that will influence our mood, concentration and..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634090-300-how-to-improve-your-digital-diet-for-greater-well-being/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The global distribution of plants has been heavily influenced by the European empires that spread alien species across the world from the 15..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342712-european-empires-had-a-lasting-impact-on-plant-biodiversity-worldwide/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The state of Alaska has cancelled the snow crab harvest for the first time due to a dramatic 90 per cent decline in population. Here's what ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342806-why-have-billions-of-snow-crabs-disappeared-from-alaskan-waters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A German warship, the V-1302 John Mahn, was sunk in 1942 and is currently leaking toxic chemical and heavy metals in the North Sea
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342768-second-world-war-shipwreck-is-leaking-toxic-chemicals-in-the-north-sea/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An estimated 1.3 million adults with diabetes in the US rationed their insulin supply in 2021 to save money, according to the results of a n..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342787-over-a-million-people-in-the-us-ration-insulin-because-of-high-costs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In England, 15.8 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 from Gypsy or Roma ethnic groups have received at least one vaccine dose, compared with ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342749-covid-jab-rates-vary-in-england-in-children-of-different-ethnicities/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all time – and is so powerful it has even..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342779-astronomers-have-just-watched-the-most-powerful-explosion-ever-seen/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From bees hunting for a mate to a giant sea star procreating, these incredible images are some of the winners in the prestigious wildlife ph..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342640-stunning-winners-of-the-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-competition/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Artificial intelligence model predictions from historical data on how AI research would develop over five years matched reality with more th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342632-artificial-intelligence-is-being-asked-to-predict-the-future-of-ai/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Trials involving swapping blood for cold saline show that exploring extraordinary ideas can lead to incredible benefits for human health
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634082-200-human-hibernation-sounds-fanciful-but-it-may-now-be-saving-lives/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Liver transplants from older donors have lasted up to 108 years, and survive longer than those from younger donors, raising questions about ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342602-transplanted-livers-can-keep-working-for-a-total-of-over-100-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The first home-grown genetically modified food may be on the horizon, in the form of purple tomatoes, finds Clare Wilson
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634080-900-why-i-am-keen-to-get-my-hands-on-genetically-modified-purple-tomatoes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

This video game lets you work as a salvager in low Earth orbit. Essentially, it is like building a Lego set in reverse, and, like Lego, it i..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634080-100-hardspace-shipbreaker-review-strip-spacecraft-for-parts-in-orbit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

As more data centres are being built to meet growing demand, their water use is coming under scrutiny – particularly in regions of the US af..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342490-how-much-water-do-data-centres-use-most-tech-companies-wont-say/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company can no longer pay for the Starlink satellites providing internet for Ukraine’s government and mili..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342606-whats-next-if-spacex-wont-fund-starlink-in-ukraine/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A brain decoder can extract words and sentences from the brain recordings of people listening to stories or watching silent films
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342509-mind-reading-ai-works-out-what-you-are-thinking-from-brain-scans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling around 50 per cent the speed of light two years late..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342498-a-black-hole-ate-a-star-and-belched-out-the-remains-two-years-later/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Neurons that transmit pain signals in the gut lining of mice are linked to the production of mucus that may maintain a healthy microbiome
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342551-gut-pain-may-help-to-maintain-a-healthy-microbiome-in-mice/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home