The car company’s expertise in AI could help it design a working prototype, but delivering a reliable product on schedule will be challenging
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Models suggest the arrangement of American shad in a shoal amplifies the ultrasonic clicks that dolphins use to hunt, helping the fish detec..
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Will governments finally take action to halt the devastating biodiversity crisis at the COP15 meeting in Kunming, China, in April?
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The go-to advice for effective dieting is to choose food that is marketed as healthy and is low in calories, carbs and fat – but the way we ..
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Are you thinking about going green in 2022? Cutting your personal carbon footprint can help, but it is important to engage with others and e..
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The Large Hadron Collider has been in a coincidental lockdown during the pan-demic for planned up-grades, but it will soon be back online an..
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Around a dozen missions to the moon are scheduled in 2022, along with a rover landing on Mars and a spacecraft headed to in-vestigate the me..
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Naturalist and ant expert Edward O. Wilson, who died on 26 December, made at least five seminal contributions to ecology and was passionate ..
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Conservationists are reintroducing threatened mammals to their former ranges with fences to keep out cats and foxes
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Governments are drafting new laws to protect your privacy online, but are people even that bothered about companies using their data?
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Common bottlenose dolphins identify themselves with a unique call, but these whistles may carry extra information through variations in volu..
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Amenhotep I ruled Egypt from around 1525 to 1504 BC and his pristine mummy has never been unwrapped, but CT scans have now allowed us to pee..
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Instead of absorbing light, iridescent surfaces scatter it away. Many animals take advantage of this to stay cool – and we could copy the tr..
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Have a crack at our holiday brain teasers: “Shaken, not stirred”, “Up the sprout”, “Meg’s pegs” and “Lebkuchen race”
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The ability to play is being spotted in some unexpected creatures, from swans to Komodo dragons. Are they really fooling around? And if so,
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After numerous delays, the biggest space telescope ever has blasted off on Christmas Day, and will begin its science mission in mid 2022
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302618-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-finally-on-its-way-into-orbit/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

What the three varieties of laughter say about your relationships, how giggling helps babies develop their sense of self, and why so many an..
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Academics in Afghanistan were thriving before the shock takeover by the Taliban this year, which saw many researchers leave the country and ..
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The president of Blackrock Neurotech says the company’s brain-computer interface, designed for people who are paralysed, could be available ..
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Previous research has suggested that fish have an innate sense of numbers, but critics say these experiments aren't the final word. Now, a n..
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With booster jabs forming the backbone of the UK’s omicron efforts, it’s more important than ever to reach out to pregnant women and people ..
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China is set to host a major biodiversity summit in 2022, but leading economist Partha Dasgupta says it is unclear what the country wants to..
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Record-shattering fires, freezes and rainfall around the world made it all too clear that extreme weather is fast becoming the new normal
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William of Ockham was tried for heresy before the Pope, only to make a daring escape. His big idea, known as Occam’s razor, remains the keen..
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Rich nations largely created the climate crisis, but poorer nations are feeling the brunt of it. The lack of action on this injustice at COP..
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A year ago, many were hoping the pandemic would soon be over – but then came alpha, delta and omicron
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A newly discovered fossil shows that within just 3 million years of their first appearance on Earth, ichthyosaurs had evolved into 17-metre-..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302957-prehistoric-ichthyosaurs-evolved-rapidly-to-be-as-big-as-whales/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Four months after hospitals collapsed in Cuba due to skyrocketing covid-19 case numbers, the country has rolled out its own vaccines and cas..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2303121-cubas-home-grown-vaccines-have-massively-cut-covid-19-cases/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

El Salvador's attempt to become the world's first state to adopt bitcoin as legal tender hits another stumbling block as hundreds of citizen..
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How well do you know your chemical elements, fundamental particles and amino acids? They’re all here in our fiendishly difficult word search..
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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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October saw the RTS,S malaria vaccine given the go-ahead for use outside trials for the first time – a momentous decision, decades in the ma..
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For the first time, grafting has been made to work in monocots, a type of plant including oats, wheats and bananas – and it might improve di..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302939-near-impossible-plant-growing-technique-could-revolutionise-farming/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Understanding why plant-eating mammals like antelopes and sheep are far less likely to die of cancer than carnivores may help protect us fro..
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Free-floating planets are hard to spot, but astronomers have bagged a large haul by looking for candidates in a nearby star-forming region
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302980-at-least-70-rogue-planets-spotted-drifting-in-space-without-a-star/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The secrets of climate change are hidden in the shapes of snowflakes, but scientists at the Snowflake ID project need your help to classify ..
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Large-scale in Norway finds the evolutionary fitness of wild Altantic salmon is being damaged after they breed with escaped fish from the co..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302512-breeding-with-farmed-fish-is-changing-the-life-cycle-of-wild-salmon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Analysis of ancient DNA reveals a mass migration of people from what is now France to England and Wales between 1000 and 875 BC
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302954-bronze-age-migration-may-have-brought-celtic-languages-to-britain/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Performing magic tricks with Eurasian jays helps scientists to understand the animals’ powers of perception, but also their ability to read
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302698-meet-the-scientists-who-perform-magic-tricks-on-birds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

In April, the Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle ever to attempt powered flight on another planet. Theodore Tzanetos tells New Sc..
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The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and e..
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In the first year of the pandemic, covid-19 became one of the leading causes of death in the US. The country also had the biggest drop in li..
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While teaching solar physics this year, I was once again drawn in by the mystery of why the sun's corona is so inexplicably hot, says Chanda..
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A 70 million-year-old oviraptorosaur egg that had been forgotten in a Chinese museum storeroom contains the most well-preserved dinosaur emb..
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Microplastics travelled thousands of kilometres across oceans and continents in a fast-moving layer of the atmosphere before being captured ..
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We used to think that European wine grapes were cultivated locally, independently of grape domestication in western Asia, but grape genetics..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302556-european-wine-grapes-have-their-genetic-roots-in-western-asia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Dogs seem to understand the basic way objects should behave, and stare for longer if animated balls violate expectations by rolling away for..
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Young male elephants will sometimes attack humans or other animals, but seem less likely to do so if they are in the company of older males
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302675-young-male-elephants-rein-in-aggression-if-older-males-are-nearby/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Hop plants are largely what distinguish your dark ales from your refreshing pales, and each has its own “terroir”. With changing weather aff
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