• LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole merger
  • Florida cat sniffs out another new virus—and scientists are listening
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
    A cat named Pepper has once again helped scientists discover a new virus—this time a mysterious orthoreovirus found in a shrew. Researchers from the University of Florida, including virologist John Lednicky, identified this strain during...
  • How government use of AI could hurt democracy
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Countries are eager to use AI to automate some government processes, but this risks eroding citizens’ trust and feelings of democratic control – because AI mistakes can ruin their lives
  • We may have finally solved an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray puzzle
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ultra-high-energy cosmic rays – but much remains unknown about these rare events
  • Artificial cooling 'urgent' for Great Barrier Reef after warming spike
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brightening to lower the risk of coral bleaching
  • Climate could warm another 0.5°C if we fail to capture far more CO2
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Models suggest that meeting climate targets will be virtually impossible without steep emissions cuts paired with a huge expansion of carbon management technologies
  • Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason for their endurance
  • Hay fever relief could come in the form of a nasal 'molecular shield'
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Mice experienced far fewer hay fever symptoms when a pollen-blocking antibody was applied within their nose
  • Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment. Now, China and the US are resurrecting the technology as a possible Pacific conflict looms
  • Fatal genetic disorder treated by replacing the brain's immune cells
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Microglia replacement therapy helps treat people with a rare genetic condition called ALSP, suggesting the approach could also work for other neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s
  • Inhaled insulin may free children with type 1 diabetes from injections
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Inhaled insulin is effective for controlling blood sugar levels in children with diabetes, providing them with a faster-acting, needle-free option to manage their condition
  • Lemurs age without inflammation—and it could change human health forever
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
    What if humans didn’t have to suffer the slow-burning fire of chronic inflammation as we age? A surprising study on two types of lemurs found no evidence of "inflammaging," a phenomenon long assumed to be universal among primates. These...
  • Astronomers found a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma can produce a truly novel kind of extraterrestrial wave near its poles
  • Peculiar plant could help us reconstruct ancient Earth’s climate
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides valuable clues for understanding past and present ecosystems
  • Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS might be the oldest comet ever seen
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion years old, almost twice the age of our sun
  • No training needed: How humans instinctively read nature’s signals
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
    People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut feelings surprisingly line up with what scientists measure.
  • Why monkeys—and humans—can’t look away from social conflict
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
    Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking individuals watched most intently, perhaps...
  • Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    An AI system trained on videos of operations successfully guided a robot to carry out gall bladder surgery on a dead pig, with minimal human assistance
  • Stunningly intimate octopus image wins aquatic photography prize
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a death-defying leap by a lemur took the top prize
  • The unexpected benefits of wall squats and other isometric exercises
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Isometric exercises like wall squats are gentle on your body, but can enhance your fitness in a surprisingly efficient way, discovers Grace Wade 
  • Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Foundation's new series is full of new characters and dramatic potential. But instead of mining those rich seams, too many plotlines have become shallow and absurd. It's hard to see a good show go bad, says Bethan Ackerley
  • Slay the new slang: check out a guide to social media’s baffling lingo
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Language is evolving rapidly in a world of social media. Our millennial reviewer finds Adam Aleksic's Algospeak to be a much-needed helping hand
  • The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains
  • Is this the raciest conference invite ever?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Feedback has been invited to an event next year in Shaoxing, China. It's an academic conference promising "revolutionary thinkers who are redefining human intimacy through cutting-edge robotics and AI"
  • Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The UK's health secretary has announced a 10-year plan to check newborns for a huge range of rare conditions. There are major medical and ethical issues with this, argues neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan
  • Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike
  • Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    An example from the history of mathematics shows how views on the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence can quickly start to change
  • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms may be less common than we thought
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Previous estimates have suggested that more than half of people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but now a review of the evidence suggests this isn't the case, at least for short-term use.
  • Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Humanity’s innate treachery is behind social ills ranging from inequality to abuse of power. Lessons from our ancestors can help defeat the enemy within
  • Exercise helps fight cancer – and we may finally know why
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Exercise seems to help prevent cancer and reduce the growth of tumours, and that protective effect may be due to the way working out changes the gut microbiome
  • Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing the remains belonged to the ancient ancestors of rhinoceroses and elephants
  • Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
    Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their nutritional value especially in vital...
  • Why falling in love with an AI isn’t laughable, it’s inevitable
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    It’s easy to sneer at people who say they’ve fallen in love with ChatGPT. But we've been developing confusing feelings for bots for decades longer than you might think, writes Alex Wilkins. With so many people feeling lonely, can that be...
  • Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird
  • A youthful brain and immune system may be key to a long life
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain and immune system
  • 1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    We now have the ability to rapidly assess the death toll of climate change after extreme heat – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave
  • Herpes virus could soon be approved to treat severe skin cancer
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma
  • The truth about ivermectin’s supposed health benefits
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Interest in the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic, but evidence for many of its supposed health claims are lacking
  • What will be the climate fallout from Trump's 'big beautiful bill'?
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
  • 70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – that’s why we exist
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world
  • Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but not if we delay
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is done soon, a computer model suggests
  • 'Flashes of brilliance and frustration': I let an AI agent run my day
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Ordering takeaway food, writing emails, reworking presentations: AI assistants are promoted as a way of outsourcing mundane tasks to free up your time for more interesting pursuits. So, what are they actually good for – and what are the...
  • North america’s oldest pterosaur unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic time capsule
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Endangered Animals News -- ScienceDaily
    In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems. This exciting find, alongside...
  • Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere, an overlooked consequence of climate change
  • Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathematics, and now mathematicians are closing in on a number that may mark the edge of this bizarre abyss
  • Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow old
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three specific times in our lives. Might it be possible to stay younger for longer?
  • Did something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are racing to find out
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems one astronomer may have caught the moment of impact and the hunt is on for other images to verify the discovery
  • Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mexico border
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces in seconds
  • AI could be about to completely change the way we do mathematics
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths into a machine-readable format is an arduous task. Now, the latest generation of artificial intelligence models is taking on the job, and...
  • 'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Endangered Species
    The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggesting her parents might have belonged to different species
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