Hundreds of thousands of lithium atoms cooled to near absolute zero exhibit a strange quantum effect a bit like a boomerang
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323871-physicists-have-made-a-quantum-boomerang-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A high octane mix of war, techno thrills and sports movie, Top Gun: Maverick devotes itself to nostalgia in a well-told tale of misunderstan..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433900-600-top-gun-maverick-review-thrilling-nostalgia-with-superfast-planes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Nearly 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger used the physics of the day to try to understand the origins of life. Now, Stephon Alexander and Salv..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323820-is-life-the-result-of-the-laws-of-entropy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A small star called AU Microscopii seems to contain strange pockets of hydrogen thousand of degrees colder than the rest of the star, and as..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323657-mysterious-cold-blobs-may-be-hiding-inside-a-distant-star/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Seabirds in Scotland are suffering amid a fast-spreading bird flu that has already killed nearly 400,000 birds globally since last October
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323797-conservationists-warn-spread-of-bird-flu-is-wiping-out-uk-seabirds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

During a court case about its policy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, lawyers for the UK government admitted that its strategy would onl..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323771-uk-government-admits-its-net-zero-climate-strategy-doesnt-add-up/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After analysing the tissue of nearly 25,000 miscarriages, researchers found more than half were caused by randomly occurring chromosomal abn..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322476-genetic-errors-cause-most-miscarriages-confirms-largest-study-yet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A parrot-beaked psittacosaurus dinosaur that lived in what is now China 130 million years ago had an abdominal scar that may have been equiv..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323781-some-dinosaurs-may-have-had-the-reptile-version-of-a-belly-button/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a small study, babies born to women who caught covid-19 while pregnant had a 6 per cent chance of a developmental delay diagnosis by 1 ye..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323535-covid-19-in-pregnancy-linked-to-delays-in-babies-reaching-milestones/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We physicists want to give everyone a feel for what we're learning, but the truth is that there is often no intuitive explanation for what o..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433900-100-why-we-cant-always-make-sense-of-physics-with-words-alone/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A girl with a rare disorder can now breathe more easily after receiving transfusions of a liquid that her sister's umbilical cord stem cells..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323598-experimental-umbilical-cord-stem-cell-therapy-treats-rare-disease/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers analysed more than 50,000 deep brain stimulation procedures carried out in the US and found that Black people were five times le..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323505-black-people-less-likely-than-white-to-get-parkinsons-surgery-in-us/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A genetic and behavioural study has identified two mutations in a gene called melanocortin 2 that help explain why dogs are so social to hum..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323591-dogs-have-two-gene-mutations-that-explain-why-they-are-friendly/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-news-modernas-omicron-booster-has-promising-immune-response/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A single female of the Fernandina Island tortoise species that was thought to be extinct for a century has been found in the Galapagos islan..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323593-galapagos-tortoise-thought-extinct-for-100-years-has-been-found-alive/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The way we can tweak interactions between qubits in quantum computers means the machines could help us create novel structures with weird pr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323544-quantum-computers-could-create-completely-new-forms-of-matter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The 500-year-old frescoes in Rome’s Villa Farnesina are being protected from air pollution by trees in the building's garden
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323524-trees-are-protecting-raphael-paintings-by-soaking-up-pollution-in-rome/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Wrapping robots in human skin that has been grown in a lab may help us to feel more at ease when we interact with them
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323290-scientists-covered-a-robot-finger-in-living-human-skin/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A six-month pilot programme in Denver, Colorado, that had mental health specialists instead of police respond to non-violent emergency calls..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323477-mental-health-emergency-responder-programme-cut-crime-rates-in-denver/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Fever, loss of appetite and seeking warmth are common responses to infections, and the discovery of the brain cells responsible for this beh..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323395-brain-cells-that-control-fever-and-other-illness-symptoms-discovered/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

One of the mirrors of NASA’s huge new space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, was hit by a small space rock larger than anything ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323498-james-webb-space-telescope-was-hit-by-a-tiny-space-rock-but-its-ok/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A personalised mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer has produced promising results in a small initial trial involving people whose cancers wer..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323437-pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-what-to-know-about-early-promising-results/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A test uses epigenetic marks on your DNA to determine which parts of your genome came from each biological parent
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323332-new-test-shows-which-bits-of-your-dna-are-from-which-biological-parent/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

For the first time, marine biologists have placed coral larvae at the base of offshore turbines in an attempt to grow new reefs. If the appr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323369-thousands-of-coral-larvae-planted-under-offshore-wind-turbine/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Lithium-ion batteries often lose their charge at sub-zero temperatures, but a design incorporating bumps into one of the main components mak..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323284-batteries-built-with-bumpy-components-work-better-in-the-freezing-cold/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Brain fog – which encompasses memory problems, lack of mental clarity and an inability to focus – had eluded scientific scrutiny until covid..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433902-300-we-are-finally-starting-to-understand-brain-fog-and-how-to-treat-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Around 180 million tonnes of slag is buried in heaps around the UK, and researchers are investigating whether they could be tapped to remove..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322641-slag-heaps-from-steelmaking-could-absorb-co2-and-fight-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We already knew that a nurturing family can reduce the chances of children developing depression or anxiety - now there's evidence that chil..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322774-children-with-firm-family-ties-more-likely-to-feel-happy-and-confident/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Scientists say it is still theoretically possible to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but realistically that now seems practically impossible.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323175-the-worlds-1-5c-climate-goal-is-slipping-out-of-reach-so-now-what/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Most prescribed cannabis products for chronic pain cause side effects like dizziness, but a new review has found that only those with very h..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323087-medical-cannabis-eases-chronic-pain-but-only-if-it-has-very-high-thc/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Survey of 224 arable farmers across the south-east and east of England finds 60 per cent would consider small agroforestry plantations
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322528-most-english-farmers-willing-to-plant-trees-to-combat-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323019-monkeypox-dna-hints-virus-has-been-spreading-in-people-for-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Using the light from 67 extremely distant quasars, astronomers have calculated that cosmic dawn, the period in which the first stars began t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323120-cosmic-dawn-ended-200-million-years-later-than-cosmologists-thought/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

However, research shows that prospects for meeting the Paris Agreement’s backstop of 2°C is still well within reach, provided emissions are ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322998-42-chance-of-breaching-1-5c-goal-even-if-all-carbon-emissions-cease/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Vortex rings, similar to smoke rings, have been observed in pulsing light before. Now, scientists have figured out how to make them on purpo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322922-whirlpools-made-of-light-can-be-twisted-into-the-shape-of-a-doughnut/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Chickens were domesticated later than we thought, but probably not for their meat. Instead, they may have acted as early alarm systems or sp..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322932-we-may-now-know-when-chickens-were-domesticated-but-not-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A supercomputer called Frontier has been officially crowned as the world's first exascale computer – one capable of a billion billion operat..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322963-are-the-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputers-operating-in-secret/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323019-monkeypox-dna-hints-virus-has-been-spreading-outside-africa-for-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A computer simulation has revealed what happens in the microseconds after uncorking a bottle of champagne in full detail, uncovering how dif..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323111-popping-a-champagne-cork-fires-gas-at-supersonic-speeds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A flying robot inspired by peregrine falcons offers a non-lethal method for scaring flocks of birds from crop fields
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322830-robotic-peregrine-falcon-can-scare-birds-away-from-crop-fields/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An artificial intelligence that can turn mathematical concepts written in English into a formal proving language for computers could make pr..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322999-ai-translates-maths-problems-into-code-to-make-them-easier-to-solve/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

For an industry that is all about creativity, fashion has been slow to innovate to deal with its dire environmental impacts. That must change
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433890-100-fast-fashion-desperately-needs-a-major-environmental-makeover/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

If you make your own compost at home, you can participate in a citizen science project that investigates whether products are as biodegradab..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433894-600-do-your-own-experiment-to-see-if-your-teabags-really-are-compostable/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In the parkland of Penge, in south London, dinosaurs roam. The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs by Mark Whitton and Ellinor M..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433892-200-meet-the-crystal-palace-dinosaurs-in-this-engaging-history/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A few particles of light bouncing off a flying mirror made of charged particles may reveal whether or not black holes destroy information, a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322952-hot-plasma-mirror-may-help-solve-stephen-hawkings-black-hole-paradox/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Medical treatment for miscarriage is often identical to abortion care. If Roe v Wade is overturned, US laws may deter providers from giving ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322939-changing-us-abortion-laws-could-dangerously-restrict-miscarriage-care/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

These are some of the winning and shortlisted entries for the Olympus Image of the Year Global Life Science Light Microscopy Award, a global..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433891-700-dazzling-close-up-images-of-the-natural-world-from-flowers-to-flies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The physics in this meandering but engrossing novel adds flavour rather than substance, with the focus more on mental health
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433892-100-the-red-arrow-review-a-compelling-read-about-depression-and-physics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
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Your height is determined by both your genes and environment, but the genetic component may also increase your risk of a variety of diseases
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322821-taller-people-may-have-a-higher-risk-of-nerve-skin-and-heart-diseases/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home