Humans are sending ever more rockets up into space – bits of them falling back to Earth could result in casualties, unless action is taken
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The first science image from the James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and highest-resolution infrared image of the universe ever captur..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2328132-james-webb-space-telescopes-first-deep-field-image-is-stunning/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327766-deepmind-ai-learns-physics-by-watching-videos-that-dont-make-sense/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Sunlight hitting the skin seems to boost secretion of an appetite-boosting hormone in men, causing them to eat more in summer – but women ar..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327982-men-may-eat-more-in-summer-because-sunlight-makes-them-hungrier/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

When talking about quantum physics, people will often nonchalantly say that particles can be in two places at once. Physicist Sabine Hossenf..
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Joseph DePasquale, the lead image processor for the James Webb Space Telescope, says seeing its first colour picture was an "overwhelming" e..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327954-how-the-james-webb-space-telescopes-first-colour-images-were-made/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We are about to get our hands on the first observations from the world’s most powerful space telescope - and it’s a moment to savour
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Cold-brew coffee is on the rise. Enthusiasts say it has a smoother, less acidic taste and new research backs this up, finds Sam Wong, who ta..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533944-600-how-to-make-the-best-cup-of-cold-brew-coffee/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A gentle fantasy about a lonely inventor called Brian, whose world changes completely when a robot he creates comes to life, makes a serious..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533940-800-brian-and-charles-review-can-robots-transform-us-asks-fantasy-film/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The latest coronavirus figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics show that around 2.7 million people had covid-19 in the week end..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327876-uks-latest-omicron-wave-being-driven-by-ba-4-and-ba-5-covid-variants/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An international study has identified more than 50 genes on the X chromosome in which mutations may cause poor sperm production
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327863-infertility-in-some-men-may-be-caused-by-x-chromosome-mutations/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Stanleycaris hirpex, which lived in the Cambrian period, had two protruding eyes on the side of its head and a larger eye in the centre
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327909-three-eyed-predator-stalked-the-seas-500-million-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Greg Clark must think twice before giving the green light to the UK's first new coal mine in decades. It would be indefensible on climate gr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327871-cumbria-coal-mine-should-be-a-no-go-for-new-levelling-up-secretary/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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A cheap and easily manufactured material can act as a thermal conductor at low temperatures and an insulator at high temperatures, which may..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2325026-gel-coated-battery-could-stop-mobile-phones-catching-fire-or-exploding/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Aerial surveys have found groups of up to 150 fin whales feeding near Antarctica, a sign that populations have bounced back since since the ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327741-southern-fin-whales-have-recovered-to-large-numbers-in-the-antarctic/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A dinosaur discovered in Argentina has been identified as a new species. Meraxes gigas lived 20 million years before T. rex, but had a simil..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327658-meraxes-gigas-was-a-huge-dinosaur-with-tiny-arms-like-t-rex/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Optimising the wheat genome could help us double yields of the crop, according to plant scientists – although other researchers say they are..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327507-optimising-crop-genetics-could-double-global-wheat-production/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The race to replace Boris Johnson as UK prime minister has begun, with Suella Braverman and Steve Baker announcing their intention to run. T
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A brief test has proven that the new LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector is the most sensitive ever. It may be our best bet for finally finding ..
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When it comes to something as complex as space-time, intuition comes in different ways, depending on the level of science you have access to..
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Feedback investigates how celebrity impersonator Doop Snogg fooled an NFT conference in New York, while also looking into Amazon’s new techn..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533944-700-nft-fans-fall-for-snoop-dogg-impersonator/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

This vivid guide takes us into the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant that exploded in 1986, revealing a "land of tranquillity an..
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A computer algorithm can use a technique called "ghost imaging" to reconstruct objects from a person's brainwaves that the person themselves..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327688-ai-can-use-your-brainwaves-to-see-things-that-you-cant/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revealed the next generation of algorithms that will keep our private data safe from ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327054-us-chooses-encryption-tools-to-protect-us-from-quantum-computers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Facebook's owner Meta has created an AI model that can translate dozens more languages than the biggest current tools, and the company also ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327061-metas-ai-can-translate-between-204-languages-including-rare-ones/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Artificial intelligence can transfer artistic styles onto a 3D scene, including turning a bulldozer into the style of Van Gogh’s The Starry ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327665-ai-can-convert-almost-any-3d-scene-into-the-style-of-a-famous-artwork/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. Here’s what it will be looking at first – and ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533940-900-7-big-questions-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-about-to-answer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Tests on 387 bats from five species found that all were exposed to high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine insecticides,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327533-bats-in-germany-are-riddled-with-pesticides-and-toxic-pollutants/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Some lab-based work has suggested we can become more irritable when we are hungry – now the phenomenon has been seen in the real-world too
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327504-we-really-can-become-hangry-suggests-first-real-world-test-of-idea/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

If a star flying past our solar system moved Neptune's orbit by just 0.1 per cent, it could eventually cause the other planets to smash into..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327042-a-passing-star-shifting-neptunes-orbit-could-wreck-the-solar-system/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

As the future generations commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe’s job is to help guide the government's decisions for the benefit of people ye..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533941-000-sophie-howe-on-how-to-fight-for-future-generations-in-politics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Physicists find that causal loops, where two events separated in time influence each other in paradoxical ways, are allowed in many theoreti..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327458-time-loops-may-not-be-forbidden-by-physics-after-all/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is about to reveal the next generation of algorithms that will keep our private data safe..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327054-us-will-choose-encryption-tools-to-protect-us-from-quantum-computers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Snapping shrimps seem immune to the shock waves their claws produce to kill or stun other animals – and it is all thanks to their head gear
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327388-snapping-shrimps-have-helmets-to-ward-off-shock-waves-from-their-claws/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A class of drugs commonly used to treat ADHD and other conditions could improve cognition and decrease apathy in people with Alzheimer's
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327464-drugs-used-to-treat-adhd-and-depression-may-ease-alzheimers-symptoms/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

This photograph of solar features called prominences is one of the dazzling cosmic images shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the ..
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The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by 2054
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327239-design-work-starts-on-european-commercial-fusion-power-station/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Mathematicians who have studied the most efficient way to pack spheres in eight-dimensional space and the spacing of prime numbers are among..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327304-fields-medal-2022-work-on-prime-numbers-and-spheres-wins-maths-prize/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Most of us have a voice inside our heads and it can be caring, supportive, negative or critical. Learning to control this internal monologue..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533941-100-how-to-understand-your-inner-voice-and-control-your-inner-critic/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A coalition of 17 companies has pledged to begin buying greener concrete this decade, and work towards buying only net-zero concrete within ..
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Which inner voice do you have? The "faithful friend", the "proud rival", the "ambivalent parent" or the "helpless child"? Getting to grips w..
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Pioneering reparations programmes meant to address decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers could get a boost from AI d..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327017-fair-ai-could-help-redress-bias-against-black-us-homebuyers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game – but they also warn..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327107-deepminds-ai-develops-popular-policy-for-distributing-public-money/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Electrodes implanted in the brain were known to release impulses that may "normalise" overactive connections within a specific circuit of th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2326945-brain-electrodes-may-be-a-long-lasting-aid-for-severe-depression/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Invasive worms, considered a major threat to native ecosystems, have been found in 97 per cent of areas for which there are records in North..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2327020-alien-earthworms-have-spread-to-almost-all-parts-of-north-america/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The promise of a new diet that can add as much as a decade to your life is certainly tempting – and might well be proven to work – but for n..
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A giant water lily that grows in Bolivia has been confirmed as a distinct species that is the world's largest water lily - now named Victori..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2326958-newly-identified-species-is-the-worlds-largest-known-giant-water-lily/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Add a 'splatometer' to your car to help researchers at the Bugs Matter project investigate the worrying global decline in insect populations..
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What would the world be like if men suddenly disappeared? That is the premise of Sandra Newman's new sci-fi novel that asks how easily we ca..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533932-300-the-men-review-gender-dystopia-in-a-world-where-men-have-vanished/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home