Over the course of just 10 days in February, three missions arrived at Mars. Together, they are creating a clearer picture of our closest pl..
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The size of a child’s hippocampus can be limited by stress, and US state welfare schemes that give families $500 a month or more are linked ..
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Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it ha..
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The variety of species found below an Antarctic ice shelf shows that life can survive in hostile, food-poor environments for thousands of ye..
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In July, the University of Science and Technology of China announced it had surpassed Google’s claimed quantum supremacy achievement. China’..
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A flurry of short flights aboard privately funded craft saw space tourism begin with a bang for billionaires in 2021. Perhaps by the end of ..
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Few of us have ever used cryptocurrencies, yet some of the schemes being dreamed up to tempt consumers are surreal and even alarming, writes..
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We have been making cheese for millennia, but researchers are only now getting to grips with how bacteria, fungi and viruses combine to crea..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233653-900-the-secret-life-of-cheese-how-marvellous-microbes-create-its-flavour/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Plants play a starring role in sci-fi films surprisingly often, but the botany in movies like The Martian, Sunshine and Prometheus doesn't a..
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In September, GABA-enriched tomatoes in Japan became the first foods modified by CRISPR gene editing to go on sale to the public
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233651-800-2021-in-review-crispr-edited-food-goes-on-sale-to-public/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Forests have a localised cooling effect, and in tropical areas where deforestation has occurred, outdoor workers are now feeling the heat mo..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302312-outdoor-workers-are-losing-hours-due-to-overheating-from-deforestation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The world is fast running out of time to act to limit hospitalisations and deaths from omicron, with England having just a week or two left ..
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Collisions with high-speed space rocks in Venus’s early history could have melted most of the planet’s mantle and driven any water into the ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302362-super-fast-impacts-may-have-made-venus-an-uninhabitable-hellhole/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Eastern mosquitofish, a problem invasive species, can be prevented from reproducing using a robot fish that they find scary
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301562-robotic-fish-scares-invasive-species-so-badly-that-it-cannot-breed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Death toll extrapolated from field surveys after at least a fifth of Brazil's Patanal region was burned in 2020 during a historic drought
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302046-fires-in-brazils-wetlands-killed-almost-17-million-animals-in-2020/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Theropod dinosaurs, including carnivores like T. rex and herbivores like Therizinosaurus, evolved deeper and stronger jaws over the course o..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2302185-t-rex-had-more-powerful-jaws-than-its-theropod-dinosaur-ancestors/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The mystery of how some species colonised new continents is as old as the theory of evolution itself. Now, with fresh clues surfacing, the r..
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Mercury pollution is a major global environmental problem, with small-scale gold mining and coal burning the two biggest sources, but fish c..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301462-freshwater-fish-can-recover-from-mercury-pollution-in-just-a-few-years/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Flushing trillions of tiny oxygen bubbles through the rectum increases blood oxygen in pigs and could be an alternative to ventilation for p..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301794-scientists-keep-inventing-ways-for-pigs-to-breathe-via-their-rectum/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A robot hand that has the lightness of touch to hold delicate objects and the strength to crush cans could one day be used as a prosthetic
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301641-robotic-hand-can-crush-beer-cans-and-hold-eggs-without-breaking-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A rock sample collected from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has been re-examined, and the results suggest the lunar surface m..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301704-apollo-17-rock-sample-hints-the-moon-cooled-faster-than-we-thought/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Computer predictions for the outcome of European football matches over a 26-year period become more accurate in recent years
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After monitoring a pair of pulsars in tight orbit around one another for 16 years, astronomers conclude that their behaviour is consistent w..
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The festive season will be dominated by a large wave of covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant, but few countries appear to have ..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301478-the-world-faces-an-omicron-christmas-but-isnt-doing-much-about-it-yet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A mysterious space explosion dubbed “the Cow” was far brighter and faster than a typical supernova, and new observations suggest it may have..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301060-baffling-space-cow-explosion-was-probably-a-failed-supernova/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A flaw in a commonly used piece of software has left millions of web servers vulnerable to exploitation by hackers
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301331-log4j-software-bug-is-severe-risk-to-the-entire-internet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

On 8 December 2020, Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinic..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300528-2021-in-review-billions-of-covid-vaccinations-given-unequally/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Netflix disaster-satire film Don’t Look Up is a cathartic and hilarious allegory of humanity's hapless efforts to deal with climate change.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301363-dont-look-up-review-the-funniest-climate-change-movie-so-far/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

It takes a special kind of gingerbread to create architecture, so make sure your building materials are up to the challenge, says Sam Wong
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233641-800-how-to-make-a-beautiful-gingerbread-house-that-wont-fall-down/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Investors have pulled out of a project to drill the Cambo oil field in the North Sea. Does this mark the end of new oil and gas extraction i
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301184-will-paused-cambo-oil-plans-mark-the-decline-of-north-sea-drilling/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Scepticism in Western countries around Russia’s vaccine reflects politics not science – the Sputnik V vaccine has the highest protection aga..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301260-why-wont-the-west-embrace-russias-highly-effective-covid-19-vaccine/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A robot arm controlled by an algorithm can play table tennis against human players after a short training session using both a virtual and r..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301254-watch-a-robot-playing-table-tennis-after-just-90-minutes-of-training/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Long spells in microgravity can alter eyeball shape, but a sleeping bag that applies suction to the lower body could prevent such problems
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300942-high-tech-space-sleeping-bag-could-stop-vision-problems-in-astronauts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A coronal mass ejection from the star EK Draconis was 10 times larger than any we have seen on our own sun
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300966-monster-cloud-of-plasma-spotted-spewing-out-of-a-distant-star/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

There is a lot more that countries could be doing to reduce the risk of new coronavirus variants arising, but it won't be easy
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300686-we-failed-to-prevent-omicron-can-we-stop-future-variants-evolving/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

NASA and the Italian Space Agency are launching the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer space telescope to measure the X-ray light coming fro..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300780-nasa-is-launching-x-ray-telescope-to-study-the-science-of-black-holes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

We thought that planets couldn’t form around stars with more than three times the mass of the sun, but planet b Cen (AB)b challenges the idea
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300742-an-unexpected-giant-planet-is-orbiting-a-massive-pair-of-stars/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

The dominant approach to building more advanced artificial intelligences is simply to scale up their computing power, but AI firm DeepMind s..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300657-deepmind-experiment-shows-ai-must-grow-smarter-not-just-bigger/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A series of extraordinary superspreader events at festive celebrations across Europe suggests the omicron coronavirus variant dramatically i..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300503-omicron-variant-may-make-christmas-party-infection-risk-much-higher/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Rocks that formed in a swamp in what is now Spain 110 million years ago contain both dinosaur bones and amber rich in invertebrate fossils
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300530-dinosaur-era-swamp-ecosystem-preserved-in-amber/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A year ago today, Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300528-uk-celebrates-one-year-of-its-covid-19-public-vaccination-programme/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A chemical derived from grape seeds selectively destroys worn-out cells in mice, allowing them to live 9 per cent longer than their untreate..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300346-grape-seed-chemical-allows-mice-to-live-longer-by-killing-aged-cells/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People who have cataracts can reduce their risk of developing dementia by about 30 per cent by undergoing surgery to restore their sight, al..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300353-older-people-who-get-cataracts-removed-have-lower-dementia-risk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Overheating is a serious issue for birds flying long distances, and paler plumage that reflects more of the sun's heat may be one of the way..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300248-migrating-birds-may-be-paler-colours-to-help-them-keep-cool/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Werner Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist famous for his uncertainty principle and his work on nuclear fission.
https://www.newscientist.com/people/werner-heisenberg/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

At the COP26 summit, the world officially acknowledged climate science, particularly in relation to methane. But it has taken decades to get..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233633-300-methanes-climate-impact-was-just-one-truth-finally-accepted-at-cop26/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

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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Like your gut bacteria, the microorganisms in your soil need nurturing, so give them a helping of organic matter, says Clare Wilson
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233632-500-its-time-to-tuck-your-plants-into-a-compost-bed-for-winter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

A genetic analysis suggests the world’s most common species of honeybee, the western honeybee, first appeared in western Asia about 7 millio..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300160-worlds-most-common-bee-originated-7-million-years-ago-in-asia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

People in the UK of Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage are more likely to live in households that include schoolchildren and people aged 70 o..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300173-multigenerational-households-a-factor-in-covid-19-ethnic-disparities/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home