Lithium is used in batteries for smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles, but some mines have been accused of creating environmental and ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330855-tracing-lithiums-atomic-signature-could-help-make-ethical-batteries/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mind wandering can boost creativity and memory, but it can also damage your mental health. Now we are learning to recognise the dangers of m..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533970-700-daydreaming-has-a-dark-side-is-your-fantasising-holding-you-back/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study of 2.4 million health records suggests the World Health Organization's set of 33 long covid symptoms may be too limited
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330568-long-covid-symptoms-may-include-hair-loss-and-ejaculation-difficulties/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Two studies have linked the mysterious rise in unexplained hepatitis cases among children to the adeno-associated virus 2, which infects nea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330496-mystery-child-hepatitis-cases-linked-to-previously-harmless-virus/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Astronomers thought that galaxies in the early universe would mostly be shapeless blobs, but an analysis of data from the James Webb Space T..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330541-jwst-finds-galaxies-may-adopt-milky-way-like-shape-faster-than-thought/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A computer simulation found that some avalanches are caused by snow fracturing in a way similar to how fault planes slide in earthquakes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330406-avalanches-may-be-caused-by-earthquake-like-shifts-in-snow/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers have gathered 1500 images of mosquitoes – both squished and not – for training AI. Their goal is to build a smartphone app that ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330637-ai-learns-how-to-recognise-the-species-of-splatted-mosquitoes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants identifies three ways exposure to dirty air could be leading to cognitive decline in olde..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330483-air-pollution-likely-to-be-causing-dementia-say-uk-science-advisers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study that proposed Tyrannosaurus rex is three separate dinosaur species has been strongly disputed by another group of researchers, who s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330552-controversial-idea-that-t-rex-was-three-species-comes-under-fire/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Taking a supplement of 30 grams of ‘resistant starch’ a day — about the amount in two slightly unripe bananas — reduced the risk of multiple..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330638-starch-supplement-reduces-the-risk-of-some-hereditary-cancers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The World Health Organization has declared the spread of monkeypox to be a "public health emergency of international concern", its highest a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330507-monkeypox-has-become-a-global-health-emergency-says-who/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Not accounting for aviation’s non-CO2 effects such as contrails could ignore 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330299-even-net-zero-aviation-could-still-cause-significant-global-warming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start flying in the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330435-hibernating-beetles-break-down-and-regrow-their-muscles-on-demand/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Chilli plants can thrive in summer and survive the winter even in temperate climes, says the heat-loving Clare Wilson, who offers some top t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533963-900-how-to-grow-chilli-plants-in-cooler-climates/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Stickleback fish can learn about predators by observing their peers. They may then be able to pass that information onto their offspring – w..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330450-sticklebacks-may-pass-information-learned-from-other-fish-to-offspring/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From sci-fi classics to essential non-fiction, some of the brightest minds in science, including Sarah Gilbert and Jim Al-Khalili, share the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329581-holiday-reads-top-scientists-and-writers-share-their-must-read-books/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A laser fired from a tower on a mountain seems to have redirected lightning in the sky and could be used to make storm clouds discharge ligh..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330088-firing-a-laser-into-the-sky-can-redirect-lightnings-path/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers experimenting with OpenAI's text-to-image tool, DALL-E 2, noticed that it seems to covertly be adding words such as "black" and ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329690-ai-art-tool-dall-e-2-adds-black-or-female-to-some-image-prompts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New gene-editing approach could be used to eliminate disease-causing mutations from pedigree dog breeds or even from clones of individual do..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330283-gene-edited-dogs-created-from-cloned-skin-cells-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

They are reportedly the most common cause of muscle or bone pain in adolescents. But it's unclear what "growing pains" are – or if they are ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330262-we-dont-actually-know-what-growing-pains-are/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

These entrancing orbs look like something plucked from distant universes, but they were in fact created by photographer Charlotte Greenwood ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533960-400-cameraless-photography-creates-lockdown-supernovae-at-home/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

To adapt to climate change, the UK needs to install “passive cooling” mechanisms in homes, such as window shades and improved ventilation sy..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330007-how-can-the-uk-keep-homes-cool-without-air-conditioning/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Millions of distant galaxies are obscured by the Magellanic Clouds, which orbit the Milky Way. However, using several different telescopes, ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330171-astronomers-are-mapping-millions-of-hidden-galaxies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An analysis of search results in the US and Germany found that the top 10 results from Google and other search engines differ widely
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329963-top-10-search-results-from-google-and-bing-differ-by-up-to-75-per-cent/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New techniques will be deployed to observe radio emissions from the early universe, helping us understand signals first detected in 2018
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330137-astronomers-devise-new-way-to-observe-traces-of-the-first-stars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a small study of 10 people with haemophilia B, nine were still forgoing the condition's standard treatment about two years after receivin..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330120-gene-therapy-trial-shows-early-success-in-people-with-haemophilia-b/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study in mice may help us understand how different people link positive or negative emotions to past events, in a discovery that could hel..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329771-brain-molecule-may-make-us-recall-memories-as-being-good-or-bad/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A global analysis predicts that as we lose more bird species to extinction, those that remain will be more similar in terms of size, beak sh..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329952-as-more-bird-species-go-extinct-those-that-are-left-may-be-more-alike/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Tetrodotoxin, the poison found in pufferfish, is an essential tool for neuroscience research, and a better technique to synthesise it could ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2330114-fast-way-of-making-pufferfishs-neurotoxin-may-lead-to-new-pain-drugs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Ink laced with molecules that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden, encoded message – the encryption key to un..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329621-ink-filled-with-secret-molecules-can-hide-encryption-key-in-a-letter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Building devices at the nanoscale is difficult because small molecules move about randomly, but now researchers have made a working rotor us..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329775-spinning-rotors-made-from-dna-could-power-minuscule-machines/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Analysis of inner ear canals from hundreds of modern and fossil animals shows that warm-bloodedness appeared abruptly in the late Triassic
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329747-ear-anatomy-shows-warm-blooded-animals-evolved-233-million-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

How the virus behind covid-19 enters the brain was somewhat of a mystery, but new evidence hints it may build tiny tubes from nose cells to ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329543-coronavirus-may-enter-the-brain-by-building-tiny-tunnels-from-the-nose/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Ink laced with molecules that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden, encoded message – the encryption key to un..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329621-secret-code-in-letter-ink-unlocks-text-of-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The geometry of the icy shell around Saturn’s moon Enceladus suggests that the ocean beneath is a little less salty than Earth’s oceans and ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329739-enceladuss-oceans-may-be-the-right-saltiness-to-sustain-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Blobs of human brain cells cultivated in the lab, known as brain organoids or “mini-brains”, are transforming our understanding of neural de..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533962-300-what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Testing positive for the coronavirus in the last three months of pregnancy may double the risk of a premature birth, rising to a seven-fold ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329472-coronavirus-in-late-pregnancy-raises-premature-birth-risk-seven-fold/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A fossil from 385 million years ago named Qikiqtania wakei shows that a descendant of early land animals lost its adaptations for land and b..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329586-a-fish-that-evolved-to-stand-up-on-land-went-back-to-living-in-water/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Competition between plants for attention from declining numbers of pollinating insects may end up meaning plants become less diverse
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329777-dwindling-pollinator-numbers-could-make-plant-communities-less-diverse/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Don't miss your chance to be part of New Scientist Live, the world’s greatest festival of ideas and discoveries, taking place at London's Ex..
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A review of 17 previous studies finds no evidence for a link between depression and low serotonin levels, which SSRI antidepressants focus o..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2328700-no-link-between-depression-and-serotonin-finds-major-analysis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Paper wasps can be trained to choose between pairs of stimuli that are either alike or different, suggesting the propensity for abstract tho..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329327-wasps-can-grasp-abstract-concepts-such-as-same-and-different/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Hormone replacement therapy was thought to increase risk of cancer recurrence after breast cancer treatment, but that may not be the case
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329530-hormone-replacement-therapy-may-be-safe-after-breast-cancer-treatment/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s successor will have to sign off on a new net-zero strategy after the UK government's plan was ruled unlawful
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329337-legal-battle-over-uks-net-zero-strategy-poses-challenge-for-next-pm/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 628, produced using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, may provide insights into how dust ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329408-stunning-jwst-image-turns-dust-in-a-distant-galaxy-into-a-purple-swirl/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After decades of heading NASA’s exploration of Saturn, Jupiter and their moons, the space physicist describes what we have learned and what ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329066-scott-bolton-on-his-missions-to-the-gas-giants-of-the-solar-system/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Vineyard Wind and Revolution Wind are set to be some of the first commercial offshore wind farms in the US. However, seven unexploded muniti..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329189-unexploded-munitions-found-at-first-large-us-offshore-wind-farm-sites/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mosquito-proof fabrics are being tested by the US military in an effort to make uniforms that protect against malaria and other diseases
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329523-the-us-military-is-making-uniforms-with-built-in-bug-spray/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Companies are taking steps to prevent heat damage to high-power computers, with some shutting down machines used for performing software upd..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329313-heatwave-is-forcing-some-uk-firms-to-turn-off-high-power-computers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Heathrow Airport has provisionally recorded a temperature of 40.2°C, an event that would be extremely unlikely without climate change, and s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329138-temperature-hits-40c-on-the-uks-hottest-day-on-record/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home