• Fatal genetic disorder treated by replacing the brain's immune cells
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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
  • Astronomers found a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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
  • Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    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
  • The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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
  • Why falling in love with an AI isn’t laughable, it’s inevitable
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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...
  • Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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 - Stem Cells
    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
  • Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer
  • Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth remained hot for millions of years
  • Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targeting their smart inverter devices as a way to cause widespread power-system failures
  • We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well understood – but now we know how they can remain stable
  • Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chemistry
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour of several molecules, paving the way for useful applications in chemistry and pharmaceutical research
  • Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewriting that view
  • Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests to burn
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate benefits will last – but they may not have nearly enough in reserve
  • The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    From David Attenborough to Hannah Fry via Bryan Johnson, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley selects her favourite science and technology documentaries of the year to date
  • Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a simple addition
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    The acidity of drinks like Red Bull can erode dental enamel, but a lab experiment suggests this could be avoided via calcium fortification
  • 3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with type 1 diabetes to produce their own insulin
  • Quantum computers are surprisingly random – but that's a good thing
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the same isn't true for the qubits of quantum computers, which may prove surprisingly useful
  • Do we grow new brain cells as adults? The answer seems to be yes
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children
  • How vaccine recommendations have changed in the US
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds of flu vaccines, a notable shift in vaccine guidance
  • Weird 'harmless' microbes may play a pivotal role in colorectal cancer
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer
  • Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne stone by boat
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the monument’s builders must have had advanced seafaring technology
  • Nighttime light exposure linked to heart disease in largest study yet
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ticking along
  • The foolproof way to win any lottery, according to maths
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    How can you guarantee a huge payout from any lottery? Take a cue from combinatorics, and perhaps gather a few wealthy pals, says Jacob Aron
  • Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from New Scientist - Stem Cells
    A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same algae, setting the stage for a self-sustaining system to build habitats on the planet
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