A survey suggests only one in 20 people aged 19 to 64 are meeting England’s strictest weekly strength exercising guidelines




https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318763-just-1-in-20-adults-in-england-exercise-their-muscles-enough/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The jab could ward off Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever and is increasingly being linked to multiple sclerosis, lymphoma and..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318579-vaccine-may-protect-against-the-virus-behind-multiple-sclerosis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The rise in demand for exotic houseplants is damaging the environment. We need to make sure our gardening is green, writes Beronda L. Montgo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433851-300-how-to-make-sure-your-houseplants-are-sustainable/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A new navigation system for drones reduces the processing power needed to avoid obstacles, even in tricky environments like forests
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318637-watch-a-swarm-of-drones-navigate-a-forest-without-crashing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Citizen science survey finds decline in insect 'splats per mile' was 65% England, 55% in Wales and lowest in Scotland, at 27.9%
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318621-flying-insects-splatting-on-cars-have-dropped-by-60-per-cent-in-uk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Two of the world’s five most extreme heatwaves occurred in the US, with the others in South-East Asia, Brazil and Peru
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318699-these-are-the-five-most-extreme-heatwaves-since-records-began/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Even a modest shift from ruminant meat to microbial proteins could cut deforestation and carbon emissions 56 per cent by 2050
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318472-swapping-fifth-of-meat-for-alternative-foods-could-halve-deforestation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

For decades, planetary scientists have been trying to understand the origins of two colossal geological anomalies inside our planet. New ins..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433852-000-what-are-the-mysterious-continent-sized-lumps-deep-inside-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A large body of evidence shows that restricting access to abortion doesn’t reduce the number of abortions, only increases the risk of death ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318570-how-repealing-roe-v-wade-in-the-us-will-lead-to-more-womens-deaths/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The AI algorithms used in business are often built by third-party companies, which means it is theoretically possible for rogue workers at t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317149-ais-could-be-hacked-with-undetectable-backdoors-to-make-bad-decisions/?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-cognitive-impairment-equivalent-to-20-years-of-ageing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A device that uses electrodes to stimulate points on the neck can force a wearer to turn their head – which could be used to direct attentio..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318401-vr-could-use-a-muscle-stimulating-device-that-forces-your-head-to-turn/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study of more than 200 square kilometres of reefs in the Hawaiian islands found that those further from pollution and coastal developments..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318364-corals-further-from-pollution-were-more-resistant-to-hawaiian-heatwave/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In a world first, Rocket Lab caught its Electron rocket as it fell from space, using a hook mounted on a helicopter, but then had to let it ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317745-rocket-lab-briefly-caught-a-falling-rocket-with-a-helicopter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Since we split from chimpanzees, a single letter change in our DNA appears to have made us more likely to get cancer, possibly as a trade-of..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318407-a-single-genetic-mutation-made-humans-more-susceptible-to-cancer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Huge networks of interconnected telescopes may run into image-sharpening problems that classical physics can't handle. Accounting for the qu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318381-planet-sized-telescopes-could-be-possible-using-quantum-technique/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Some manakin males court females with elaborate aerial routines – and in these species, males have evolved to be more lightweight for extra ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318515-male-manakin-birds-with-acrobatic-mating-dances-evolved-smaller-bodies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A fossilised leg bone found in Japan belonged to a prehistoric swan species with adaptations similar to several other water birds, including..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318389-huge-flightless-swan-roamed-the-ancient-seas-with-a-cradle-on-its-back/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A species of fly works together with a yeast to combat a raspberry-bound fungus that threatens the insects' larvae
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318267-raspberries-are-a-battleground-between-flies-yeast-and-fungi/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The UK government's plan to use "scientific methods" to find the age of asylum seekers is based on methods that haven't been proven to work
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433843-300-politicians-must-stop-using-pseudoscience-to-sell-their-policies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Ideas from beyond the standard model of particle physics, including technicolor and glueball Higgs particles, could explain the recent shock..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317577-strange-new-higgs-particles-could-explain-shocking-w-boson-result/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Russian troops destroyed and stole equipment used to monitor radiation levels at Chernobyl, requiring the creation of a new sensor network t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318015-chernobyl-scientists-want-robots-and-drones-to-monitor-radiation-risk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A study of nearly 9000 children and their diets found that about 6 per cent of vegetarians were classed as underweight, compared with around..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318265-vegetarian-children-are-slightly-more-likely-to-be-underweight/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A computer model based on past mass extinctions predicts the percentages of marine organisms that may be lost in best and worst-case scenari..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318061-extreme-global-warming-could-see-major-ocean-life-extinction/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A technique that uses quantum computers to verify a device's location can only be hacked with a quantum machine thousands of times larger th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318100-quantum-encryption-could-stop-scammers-from-faking-their-locations/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After examining data from more than 18,000 dogs, researchers have reached a clear conclusion: breed doesn’t explain why dogs behave the way ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318139-your-dogs-breed-doesnt-really-determine-how-it-behaves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Life expectancy tables for 18 breeds show that Jack Russells are the top dogs for longevity, while French bulldogs come in last
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318084-french-bulldogs-are-the-shortest-lived-dog-breed-in-the-uk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The vocal gymnastics of harbour seals, including the ability to significantly raise or lower their pitch, seem not to be down to anatomy but..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318170-harbour-seals-can-learn-how-to-change-their-voices-to-seem-bigger/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An ultra-long neck would seem to put aquatic plesiosaurs at a disadvantage, but it turns out their big bodies helped avoid drag while swimmi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318010-plesiosaurs-evolved-awkward-long-necks-thanks-to-their-big-bodies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Findings from people running in the lab and in the real world show that men and women tend to run at a speed that minimises energetic costs,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318050-people-instinctively-run-at-their-most-energy-efficient-speed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Elisabeth Moss is after a killer who is defying all known laws of reality in Shining Girls, an unsettling Apple TV+ adaptation of Lauren Beu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433840-500-shining-girls-review-tv-sci-fi-thriller-is-a-mind-bending-puzzle/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer that can go into remission on its own. Now, researchers have identified a possible reason why and used t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317971-we-may-know-why-some-childhood-cancers-resolve-on-their-own/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A glow of gamma rays from within our galaxy has long puzzled astronomers, but now it seems they could be produced by a specific type of mill..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318060-mysterious-gamma-rays-at-centre-of-milky-way-could-be-from-pulsars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another.
https://www.newscientist.com/definition/species/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Researchers used software to identify drugs and fertilisers that can be made from 189 byproducts of large-scale industrial processes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317146-chemical-waste-can-be-recycled-into-a-range-of-drugs-and-fertilisers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A global study has found that farming, logging, urban development and invasive species may cause 21 per cent of reptile species to go extinct
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317753-over-a-fifth-of-reptile-species-are-at-risk-of-extinction/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Scientists sequenced the DNA of a 7-year-old girl with severe lupus, which suggests mutations to the gene TLR7 may cause the autoimmune cond..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317594-discovery-of-a-genetic-cause-of-lupus-could-lead-to-new-treatments/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A robot that could cover half a kilometre per jump on the moon may be the ideal lunar exploration vehicle
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317072-watch-a-jumping-robot-that-could-one-day-leap-across-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A serendipitous experiment has demonstrated a superconductor that lets electricity preferentially travel in one direction for the first time
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317609-first-one-way-superconductor-could-slash-energy-used-by-computers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The UK wants to use "scientific methods" to assess the ages of people seeking asylum, with plans to send adults to settle in Rwanda instead,..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433843-500-uk-asylum-seeker-plan-risks-deporting-children-based-on-flawed-science/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Analysis of pollen preserved in peat at Slieveanorra in the Antrim hills reveals the resilience of a rural community through environmental c..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317677-a-small-irish-community-survived-a-millennium-of-plagues-and-famines/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Archaeological work at Blick Mead, a site near Stonehenge, reveals that people were visiting the site thousands of years before the monument..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317623-people-visited-stonehenge-site-thousands-of-years-before-it-was-built/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People come up with fewer creative solutions to a problem when they discuss ideas through a virtual meeting rather than face-to-face
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317566-virtual-meetings-make-creative-problem-solving-harder/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New legislation that would see planes forced to use "sustainable aviation fuel" might actually end up increasing emissions, depending on whi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317570-eu-plan-for-cutting-emissions-from-planes-could-end-up-increasing-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to promote free speech on Twitter, but the European Union's Digital Services Act could see the bloc calling the ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317454-elon-musk-buying-twitter-has-set-him-up-for-a-scuffle-with-the-eu/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Conditions on the peak of Llullaillaco, 6739 above sea level, are cold, dry and hostile – but some mice somehow survive there
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317446-volcano-dwelling-mice-confirmed-as-worlds-highest-living-mammals/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We have now discovered all four building blocks of DNA in meteorite samples, suggesting that space rocks may have delivered the compounds to..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317479-all-four-of-the-key-dna-building-blocks-have-been-found-in-meteorites/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Horizontal DNA transfer, once thought to be a rare event, has occurred between snakes and frogs at least 54 times in the past 85 million yea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317502-frogs-have-acquired-dna-from-snakes-with-the-help-of-parasites/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Many homes in the UK rely on repurposed phone lines for internet access, leading to slow download speeds, but there may be a solution
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317040-ordinary-copper-telephone-wire-could-carry-gigabit-broadband-speeds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

New insight into how we age suggests it may be driven by a failure to switch off the forces that build our bodies. If true, it could lead to..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433843-000-growing-younger-radical-insights-into-ageing-could-help-us-reverse-it/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home