A network of 100,000 animals connected by trackers and watched from space could explain extraordinary animal behaviour and help forecast vol..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433800-900-martin-wikelski-interview-tracking-animals-reveals-their-sixth-sense/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After the extinction of the dinosaurs, mammals took over and had room to evolve larger bodies, but their brains remained small to begin with
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314363-mammals-grew-big-after-dinosaurs-died-but-their-brains-stayed-small/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Animals known to be highly intelligent, such as ravens and chimpanzees, have good long-term memory – and now it seems that some bats do too
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314447-bats-can-remember-sounds-they-havent-heard-for-more-than-4-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A corruption scandal is the latest fallout from the Brazilian president's efforts to stifle institutions meant to protect the rainforest, fu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314385-the-amazon-has-descended-into-lawlessness-in-jair-bolsonaros-brazil/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From hydras to humans, this short book by two marine biologists explores the peculiar process of regeneration, showing that it is a far bigg..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433800-600-what-is-regeneration-review-a-dive-into-the-science-of-regrowth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The European Union’s plan to achieve climate neutrality could lead to more deforestation because it ignores what happens when more land is u..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314292-theres-a-huge-flaw-in-the-eus-draft-net-zero-carbon-emissions-plan/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A genetic test gives results in half an hour to show if a person may become deaf in response to certain antibiotics, so can be used for babi..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314445-genetic-test-for-mutation-that-leads-to-antibiotic-induced-deafness/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

At night a subtle force drains power in most of our homes. We’re talking devices on standby, and photographer Alessio Perboni has tapped the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433800-300-see-the-murky-world-of-vampire-appliances-captured-on-camera/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Russia says its POM-3 landmines use artificial intelligence to distinguish between soldiers and civilians, though arms experts doubt if it r..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314453-russia-claims-smart-landmines-used-in-ukraine-only-target-soldiers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Pupae of the green-veined white butterfly use more energy if autumn is long and warm, which leaves them too weak to emerge as butterflies in..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314382-butterfly-survival-reduced-by-warmer-and-longer-autumns/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

One of the first excavations to find extinct human remains took place on Java in the 1890s, and the original documentation reveals details a..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314321-fate-of-buried-java-man-revealed-in-unseen-notes-from-homo-erectus-dig/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Several countries are now abandoning their goal of reducing the coronavirus's spread as much as possible, but the evidence shows this was th..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433800-100-zero-covid-strategies-are-being-ditched-but-they-were-the-best-option/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Andrea Arnold’s documentary debut, featuring a loveable dairy cow, prompts difficult questions about raising animals entirely for human bene..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433800-500-cow-review-a-moving-and-uncomfortable-cows-eye-view-of-farming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

With spring arriving in the UK, it’s the perfect time to create bee hotels, designed to be snug and safe for these important pollinating ins..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433802-600-how-to-make-the-perfect-bee-hotel-for-your-garden/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A vital part of our bodies is often ignored by exercise regimes. Does your pelvic floor need a workout?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333794-000-we-can-all-benefit-from-taking-care-of-our-pelvic-floor-heres-how/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

After a sharp fall in 2020, the UK’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases increased by 4.7 per cent in 2021, the bigge..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314341-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-jumped-by-a-record-amount-last-year/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A star in a galaxy that is now more than 27 billion light years away may allow us to understand the very first stars after the big bang
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313903-furthest-star-ever-seen-offers-glimpse-12-8-billion-years-into-past/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People who grew up in cities are better at navigating grid-like environments full of straight routes, while those raised in more rural setti..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314204-where-you-grew-up-influences-how-well-you-navigate-the-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Wood-based home appliances are responsible for 63 per cent of the health costs from air pollution related to heating and cooking in homes in..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314156-health-impacts-of-wood-burning-cost-eu-and-uk-e17-billion-a-year/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Wildlife photographers spotted an unusually pale, red-eyed turtle hatchling in Telangana state, which was identified as a flapshell turtle w..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314069-rare-albino-turtle-discovered-in-india/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

To make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time, theorists are trying to reformulate physics to include subjective..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433802-500-a-new-place-for-consciousness-in-our-understanding-of-the-universe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up c..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314039-ai-can-create-a-computer-inside-itself-to-run-another-ai-or-play-pong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

With the mRNA covid-19 vaccines being delivered to growing numbers of young people, researchers are looking again at the rare risk of heart ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314084-myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-how-rare-is-it-and-who-is-at-risk/?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-just-64-per-cent-are-self-isolating-in-england/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

From paying more heed to early warning systems to being prepared to change our minds as the evidence evolves, there are several things we sh..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313858-health-check-newsletter-six-lessons-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work – and the driving force seems t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314017-ancient-britons-rapidly-evolved-to-cope-with-lack-of-sunlight/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

There has been little progress at talks in Geneva aimed at encouraging countries to set new targets for protecting wildlife
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314046-un-biodiversity-talks-fail-to-agree-on-new-targets-to-protect-wildlife/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A unique lumpy landscape on Pluto was probably built up via ice seeping up from its surprisingly warm interior that has created volcanoes as..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313814-pluto-has-a-huge-field-of-bumpy-ice-created-by-massive-volcanoes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The cost of heating UK homes using traditional technology is rising this week – making green options like solar panels and heat pumps a more..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2314004-uk-energy-crisis-means-greening-your-home-will-pay-off-much-faster/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Scientists at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant say that radioactive material was stolen by looters during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313990-could-nuclear-material-stolen-from-chernobyl-be-used-in-a-dirty-bomb/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Stress-linked changes in the activity of genes may be why Black people in the US often have worse chronic pain than white people
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313890-chronic-pain-in-black-people-in-us-may-be-linked-to-gene-expression/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The Cambrian animals preserved at the Chengjiang fossil site in China lived in a shallow sea close to a river delta – a changeable environme..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313733-some-of-the-earliest-complex-animals-were-fossilised-in-a-river-delta/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A US company has deleted the genes for the allergy-causing protein in cat cells as a first step towards creating cats that don't trigger all..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313803-us-biofirm-plans-to-make-hypoallergenic-cats-using-crispr-gene-editing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A tiny snake-like animal that lived about 308 million years ago had evolved to lose its forelimbs
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313779-armless-fossil-sheds-light-on-how-animals-like-snakes-lost-their-limbs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a genetic condition that causes widespread skin blistering, have been successfully t..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313752-first-ever-gene-therapy-gel-corrects-rare-genetic-skin-condition/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A device made from glass microbeads could offer 100 times more processing power than other DNA computers
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313841-a-computer-made-from-dna-coated-beads-could-detect-viruses-in-saliva/?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-uk-infections-approaching-a-record-high/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Despite many nations dropping coronavirus restrictions, cases of covid-19 are rising. We won't see the end of the pandemic until we adopt a ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333792-900-the-covid-19-pandemic-isnt-over-and-it-wont-end-any-time-soon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Squids' stretchy skin changes colour in response to varying light levels, inspiring scientists to create a plastic that changes its heat abs..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313830-packaging-inspired-by-squid-skin-could-keep-your-takeaway-coffee-warm/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Stargazing usually favours night owls, but here's a treat for early birds, says Abigail Beall, who offers a host of planets peeping over the..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333792-700-a-planet-spotting-extravaganza-is-coming-if-you-are-an-early-riser/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili discusses the power of wonder, the importance of overcoming our biases and the biggest mysteries in..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333790-800-jim-al-khalili-on-the-joy-of-science-and-how-to-stay-curious/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A new documentary reveals the lives of Katia and Maurice Krafft, trail-blazing volcanologists who paid the ultimate price
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333790-600-fire-of-love-review-an-intimate-account-of-life-death-and-lava/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The TickleFoot device stimulates the most ticklish spots of the human foot – for women it was found to be the centre of the arch, while for ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2312816-watch-a-foot-tickling-machine-discover-the-most-ticklish-spot-on-feet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Coral have turned white across all four of the reef’s main areas, with the north and centre of the world heritage site worst hit in the natu..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313668-great-barrier-reef-suffers-first-mass-bleaching-under-cooling-la-nina/?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-china-still-aiming-for-zero-covid-despite-record-cases/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A mind-bending light and sound extravaganza is coming to a town near you, and it could help unravel the mysteries of the brain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333790-400-dreamachine-preview-a-drug-free-hallucinogenic-trip/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Infrared images of ostrich necks show that they help the birds keep their heads cool in warm temperatures, lowering their heat stress and he..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313490-ostrich-necks-act-as-a-radiator-to-control-their-head-temperature/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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The UK government imposed a moratorium on shale gas extraction in November 2019, leaving fracking firms that had paid licence fees out of po..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313519-uk-chose-to-pay-back-640000-to-fracking-firms-after-shale-gas-ban/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The newly described rose-veiled fairy wrasse is among the greatest living embodiments of a rainbow seen in nature, as this colourful image s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333790-200-vibrant-rainbow-hued-wrasse-is-officially-named-a-new-species/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home