A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem likely to be in the habitable zone and one of them could..
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, who now oversees the UK government department responsible for energy and climate change, recently called to extract "every ..
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Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their stars like most worlds, so they may have been stolen from other ..
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A laser mounted on the moon could propel small spacecraft carrying light sails through space to help us explore faster and map distant regio..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336836-swarm-of-light-sail-spacecraft-could-be-propelled-by-laser-on-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer through the filaments of dust and gas in the Tarantula Nebula, the brightest an..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336822-jwsts-dazzling-nebula-image-shows-stars-we-have-never-seen-before/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Female red-eyed tree frogs respond better to mating calls they hear if they can also feel them through the branches they're perched on, a fi..
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Thanks to conservation successes, black bears are back - and they are becoming more brazen around humans. Mary Roach looks at how they’re ta..
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Device using solar power to capture water from the air could make hydrogen production viable in places such as central Australia and the Mid..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336531-hydrogen-produced-from-air-could-provide-low-carbon-fuel-in-deserts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A renewed focus on fatigue in light of long covid means we now have a better understanding of the body-brain pathways that cause it, offerin..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336427-beyond-tired-why-fatigue-sets-in-and-how-to-tackle-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People with breakthrough infections pass on less virus if they have been previously vaccinated and infected
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336617-vaccinations-and-past-infections-reduce-risk-of-spreading-covid-19/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into sa..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336521-the-amazon-rainforest-has-already-reached-a-crucial-tipping-point/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The blue light that smartphone and laptop screens give off may not affect your sleep if you only get a small dose of it
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336627-some-screen-use-before-bedtime-might-be-ok-for-your-sleep-after-all/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Franciscan monk Paolo Benanti is the brains behind the Rome Call, a pact aimed at making sure artificial intelligence is developed with ethi
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534031-000-the-popes-ai-adviser-on-ensuring-algorithms-respect-human-dignity/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Lab tests suggest that Legionella bacteria are involved in an 11-person outbreak of unexplained pneumonia cases at a private medical clinic ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336591-legionnaires-disease-may-be-cause-of-mystery-pneumonia-in-argentina/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Banning the addition of artificial trans fats to food in 2003 is thought to have saved 1200 lives in Denmark between 1991 and 2007
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336389-denmarks-ban-of-artificial-trans-fats-saved-1200-lives-over-16-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It's time to be clear about the evidence around hormone replacement therapy and let people make up their own minds
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534023-200-outdated-research-on-hrt-is-letting-people-down/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An implant embedded in Australian animals that releases lethal poison when feral cats eat them could stop species being driven to extinction..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336375-making-australias-native-animals-poisonous-could-curb-feral-cats/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum, a plant native to West Africa, doesn't taste sugary on its own, but any sour food you eat afterwards wil..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335674-how-miracle-berries-turn-sour-foods-sweet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An analysis of 16 apps used as alternatives to incarceration found numerous privacy problems including in an app used to track almost 248,00..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336473-apps-used-as-alternatives-to-prison-in-us-found-to-have-privacy-flaws/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Five people in recovery from psychosis guide artist Marcus Coates as he recreates aspects of their experience in this series of disorienting..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534020-300-the-directors-review-five-intimate-short-films-about-psychosis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People are buying up firewood and installing wood-burning stoves to heat their homes to reduce the impact of the hike in UK energy prices
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336109-uk-energy-crisis-sparks-rush-for-firewood-despite-air-pollution-fears/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Three people have died this week due to a pneumonia outbreak of unknown origin in the Tucumán province of northwestern Argentina
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336438-what-we-know-about-the-mysterious-pneumonia-in-argentina/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Brown dwarfs are too massive to be a planet but not large enough to be a star, giving them features of both. Now, astronomers using the Jame..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336437-jwst-has-spotted-sandy-clouds-on-a-distant-alien-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Simple plastics can be turned into tiny diamonds with a pulse of laser light, and a similar process may occur inside giant planets, which co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336362-blasting-plastic-with-powerful-lasers-turns-it-into-tiny-diamonds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A magnet made out of ytterbium atoms is only a billionth of a degree warmer than absolute zero. Understanding how it works could help physic..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336247-quantum-magnet-is-billions-of-times-colder-than-interstellar-space/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Pheromones are often used by farmers for controlling pest insects but the chemical process for producing them is expensive. A method for mak..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336244-bioengineered-plants-help-produce-moth-pheromones-for-pest-control/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Most of 13 flagship existing CCS schemes worldwide, representing 55 per cent of captured CO2, have either failed entirely or captured much l..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336018-most-major-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects-havent-met-targets/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A zinc battery made using a compound from crab shells can be recharged at least 1000 times and can biodegrade or be recycled at the end of i..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336296-battery-made-of-crab-shell-and-zinc-is-rechargeable-and-biodegradable/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The company behind Facebook has created an AI that could one day be used to help nonverbal people better communicate
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335961-meta-ai-can-tell-which-words-you-hear-by-reading-your-brainwaves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Since April, there have been 22,500 more deaths than expected in the UK. Health experts are concerned but unsure of the causes – which could..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335991-there-are-thousands-more-uk-deaths-than-usual-and-we-dont-know-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The US Food and Drug Administration authorised the use of versions of Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccines that target both the ori..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336281-us-authorises-the-use-of-dual-variant-covid-19-vaccine-boosters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A new artificial intelligence that monitors mice grimaces to score their pain from 0 to 8 may help researchers judge the effectiveness of a ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336250-ai-that-can-see-pain-in-a-mouses-face-could-aid-drug-development/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

For the first time, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly captured an image of an exoplanet from space
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336245-first-exoplanet-picture-from-james-webb-space-telescope-revealed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Giving a TED talk wasn't easy, but I wanted to make sure my audience came away with a better understanding of dark matter, writes Chanda Pre..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534020-100-how-i-gave-a-ted-talk-on-dark-matter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An artificial intelligence learned to skilfully control digital humanoid soccer players by working through decades worth of soccer matches i..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336132-deepmind-ai-learns-to-play-soccer-using-decades-of-match-simulations/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The extinction of the dinosaurs left an ecological hole that was quickly filled by mammals, which rapidly developed larger bodies. Now it se..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335906-early-mammals-lived-faster-and-died-younger-than-modern-ones/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

At four locations close to the Yanomami Indigenous reserve in Brazil, many species of fish were found to have mercury levels considered unsa..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335746-half-of-fish-tested-in-an-amazon-river-have-unsafe-levels-of-mercury/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In some types of helium and hydrogen, protons are more than six times as likely to pair up than they are in other atoms – which may mean the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335724-protons-inside-some-types-of-hydrogen-and-helium-are-behaving-weirdly/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

NASA’s MOXIE experiment on Mars has produced about 100 minutes’ worth of breathable oxygen, raising hopes for future crewed missions
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335518-nasa-made-enough-oxygen-on-mars-to-last-an-astronaut-for-100-minutes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A hacking device can be placed under a table and use electromagnetic signals to mimic human touch on nearby touchscreens. It could then be u..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335970-hacking-device-can-secretly-swipe-and-tap-your-smartphone-screen/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Most common genetic causes of a rare condition called “uncombable hair syndrome” have been found
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335911-scientists-home-in-on-genetic-causes-of-uncombable-hair-syndrome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Hormone replacement therapy has a bad reputation because of potential risks to long-term health. A new look at the evidence could change our..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335660-should-you-take-hrt-heres-how-to-think-clearly-about-the-risks/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Robots without batteries, motors or electronics can lack power, but a tiny gearbox driven by an external magnetic field enabled one soft rob..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335737-magnetic-gearbox-could-power-robots-to-crawl-or-jump-inside-your-body/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A predecessor of the long-necked sauropods named Mbiresaurus raathi provides clues about how climate restricted the range of early dinosaurs
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335385-two-legged-dinosaur-from-zimbabwe-is-the-oldest-ever-found-in-africa/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Computer simulations of a simplified dishwasher that uses hot, dry steam and no detergent found that it could kill all heat-resistant bacter..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335579-superheated-steam-dishwasher-could-kill-bacteria-in-just-25-seconds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Songs that were first heard from humpback whales off eastern Australia were picked up in whales off Ecuador several years later, suggesting ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335584-whale-songs-can-spread-between-groups-nearly-8000-kilometres-apart/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will scan the whole southern sky every three nights. From short-lived supernovae to alien megastructures, here..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-the-time-lapse-telescope-that-will-transform-our-view-of-the-universe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The vast array of shapes that fungi can take, including colourful mushroom caps and tangles of thread-like moulds, evolved in two big bursts..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335623-fungi-evolved-their-weird-and-wild-shapes-in-two-big-bursts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Stomach cramps and the urgent need for the toilet on long runs may partly be caused by decreased blood flow damaging gut cells. Compression ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335602-compression-socks-may-prevent-nausea-and-loose-bowels-during-marathons/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Eight weeks of torrential rain during a severe monsoon season have left a third of Pakistan underwater, in the worst flooding since 2010
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335515-deadly-pakistan-floods-are-a-climate-catastrophe-says-un-chief/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home