• Bird flu was found in a US pig – does that raise the risk for humans?
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found in a pig in the US for the first time, raising the risk of the virus evolving to become more dangerous to people
  • We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre particles that sometimes move like they have no mass, but at other times move just like a very massive particle
  • Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their role in the carbon cycle may be
  • Evolutionary paths vastly differ for birds, bats
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from Anthropology News -- ScienceDaily
    New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.
  • There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any physical process in the universe can grow
  • World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old
  • One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's release seem to include AI-written content
  • Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to advances in medical imaging, cooling systems and even nuclear reactors
  • The best new science fiction books of November 2024
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer
  • Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    In support of their AI ambitions, tech companies are rapidly expanding US data centres, and this growth is on track to significantly increase US gas demand by 2030
  • War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people conceived in 1940s
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    People conceived during the UK's 1940s and 50s sugar rationing have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure than those conceived after rationing ended
  • A novel neural network for preserving cultural heritage via 3D image reconstruction
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Anthropology News -- ScienceDaily
    Relief-type cultural heritage objects are commonly found in many historical sites worldwide, but often suffer from varying levels of damage and deterioration. Traditional methods for image reconstruction require extensive manual labor...
  • How life began on earth: modeling Earth's ancient atmosphere
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Origin of Life News
    This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.
  • Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world
  •  NSF Arecibo C3 opening moved to 2025, aligning with NSF's 75th anniversary commemorations
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from NSF News
    The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced that the official opening of the NSF Arecibo Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement (NSF Arecibo C3) will be moved...
  • A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from seven people
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who assembled it or why
  • Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's speaker, enabling an AI model to transcribe the conversation, even at a distance in a noisy room
  • Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare
    Thursday, October 31, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough time, but the amount of time needed is much longer than the lifespan of the universe
  • Simple fix could make US census more accurate but just as private
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information private – but a new approach could maintain the same privacy while improving accuracy
  • Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces
  • Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fits-all diet advice?
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Our metabolism's response to food is highly idiosyncratic and there are hints that tailoring our diet to these personal differences can deliver health benefits
  • Ancient DNA brings to life history of the iconic aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culture
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Early Human News
    Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from Siberia to...
  • The 'urban revolution' was slow in Bronze Age Arabia
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Cultures News -- ScienceDaily
    Settlements in northern Arabia were in a transitional stage of urbanization during the third to second millennium BCE, according to a new study.
  • AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarctic penguin colonies – even as researchers debate whether to harness or discourage tourism in this remote region
  • Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition. More than a hundred years later, researchers document their own saga of how they found the vessel
  • Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrew shows how science plans to save the planet
  • How a ride in a friendly Waymo saw me fall for robotaxis
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    I have a confession to make. After taking a handful of autonomous taxi rides, I have gone from a hater to a friend of robot cars in just a few weeks, says Annalee Newitz
  • Mountaineering astronauts and bad spelling? It's advertising's future
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Feedback digs into a baffling ad for a mobile game and identifies a new and devilish way to advertise a product online: make it as confusing as possible to encourage people to click (it worked on Feedback)
  • Are we really ready for genuine communication with animals through AI?
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Thanks to artificial intelligence, understanding animals may be closer than we think. But we may not like what they are going to tell us, says RSPCA chief executive Chris Sherwood
  • Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Orca – Black & White Gold digs deep into the dirty waters surrounding the killer whale trade and captures a daring rescue mission
  • How to cut through the latest nutritional fads
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    From the benefits of fermented foods to diets that promise a better hormone balance, there is a confusing array of dietary advice out there
  • A remarkable fossil assemblage gets a new interpretation
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from NSF News
    A team of paleontologists recently discovered that an ancient seascape known for its diverse assemblage of exceptionally preserved fossils represents an unexpected oceanic setting, placing the fossils in an environmental context that is...
  • The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-reaching health impacts
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Most ingredients touted as the key to better health fail to live up to the hype but fibre bucks this trend, with benefits for the whole body, not just the gut
  • NSF names three new I-Corps Hubs expanding the National Innovation Network across the U.S.
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from NSF News
    The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the addition of three new NSF Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps™) Hubs that will scale the NSF-led National Innovation Network (NIN), accelerating the translation of discoveries into new...
  • Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that different from some modern species
  • Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, evolves and develops resistance to treatments
  • Are fermented foods like kimchi really that good for your gut?
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The health benefits of fermented food and drink have long been touted, but firm evidence in favour of kombucha, sauerkraut and kefir is surprisingly elusive
  • Can we really balance our hormones by eating certain foods?
    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Diets that claim to control excess oestrogen or stress hormones are all the rage on Instagram and TikTok. They could be good for us, just not for the reasons claimed
  • Sinuses prevented prehistoric crocodile relatives from deep diving
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Evolutionary Biology News -- ScienceDaily
    Paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins.
  • Quantum batteries could give off more energy than they store
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can gain more charge than was stored in the battery to begin with
  • This week with NSF Director Panchanathan
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from NSF News
    Last week, Director Sethuraman Panchanathan engaged in meetings that deepened U.S. National Science Foundation's relationships with current international partners and expanded NSF's global network. On Monday, Oct. 21, Panchanathan and NSF…
  • The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a permanent shift
  • Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets
  • The surprising truth about the health benefits of snacking
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    We get about a quarter of our calories from snacks and new research shows that this isn't necessarily bad for us. Done right, snacking can boost our health
  • Have we found all the major Maya cities? Not even close, new research suggests
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Anthropology News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers used laser-guided imaging to uncover vast unexplored Maya settlements in Campeche, Mexico, revealing more than 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures, including a previously unknown large city with stone pyramids. Their study enhances...
  • Fossil hunters strike gold with new species
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Origin of Life News
    Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a distant relative of modern-day horseshoe...
  • One course of antibiotics can change your gut microbiome for years
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Antibiotics can reduce diversity in the gut microbiome, raising the risk of infections that cause diarrhoea - and the effects may last years
  • Do certain foods suppress inflammation and help you live longer?
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Recent research shows that anti-inflammatory diets are not as faddish as they might sound, with the power to reduce the risk of heart attacks and some cancers
  • AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A specialised algorithm could help autonomous vehicles track hidden objects, such as a pedestrian, a bicycle or another vehicle concealed behind a parked car
  • Could when you eat be as important as what you eat?
    Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Peaks in appetite and metabolism driven by our body's inbuilt clocks mean that eating at the wrong time can have consequences for our health and waistline
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