• Brain implant lets man with paralysis fly a virtual drone by thought
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A man with paralysis was able to fly a virtual drone through a complex obstacle course simply by thinking about moving his fingers, with signals being interpreted by an AI model
  • How GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy affect risk of 175 conditions
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The benefits of taking GLP-1 agonists seem to outweigh the risks, at least when taken for approved uses, according to an assessment of how the drugs impact 175 conditions
  • Fertiliser can be made from human urine in just a few simple steps
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Urine is rich in nitrogen, which is important for plant growth, and now scientists have found an efficient way of utilising this to make human wastewater into fertiliser
  • Why your chronotype is key to figuring out how much sleep you need
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Is 8 hours of sleep really the right amount for you? Understanding your personal chronotype could be a better way to approach how much time you should spend in bed
  • Reliance on wind and solar does expose nations to energy price spikes
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Countries like the UK, Spain and Italy rely on gas to step in when renewables can’t produce power, leading to higher energy prices – but a more flexible system could avoid this
  • Ultra-thin material creates a magnetic mystery
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The soft metal bismuth may be a wonder material for electronics – particularly because of one surprising behaviour it displays when exposed to magnetic fields
  • Do we actually know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like?
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The gut microbiome has tremendous potential for helping us treat, or even prevent, many different conditions - but first, we need to understand it better
  • Why sleep quality is so important – and so difficult to measure
    Monday, January 20, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Sleeping a solid 8 hours isn't the whole story and the quality of your sleep might matter more. But what does sleep quality mean and how can we measure it?
  • Fire at world’s largest battery facility is a clean energy setback
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing battery storage facility in California destroyed thousands of lithium batteries – and a significant amount of the state's clean energy storage capacity
  • Tiny insect-like robot can flip, loop and hover for up to 15 minutes
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A flying robot the size of a postage stamp can hover for up to 15 minutes without breaking, and it can perform acrobatic manoeuvres
  • 2024 may have been the rainiest – as well as hottest – year on record
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Global average precipitation in 2024 may have broken the previous record set in 1998, as rising temperatures boosted the amount of moisture in the atmosphere
  • Three million years ago, our ancestors were vegetarian
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Early Human News
    Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an analysis of nitrogen isotope isotopes in the...
  • NSF-supported educators and researchers honored by the White House for excellence in STEM leadership
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from NSF News
    The U.S. National Science Foundation honors individuals recognized by the president of the United States with prestigious White House awards. These include the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching...
  • US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban – but the fight isn't over yet
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Now that the US Supreme Court has decided that a law banning TikTok is constitutional, the platform is set to shut down in the US on 19 January – but Trump could still save it
  • World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
  • Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle of the rockets?
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos's company saw a launch success with New Glenn, Elon Musk's Starship exploded. What does this mean for the future of the space industry?
  • Rabbits may eat their own teeth to boost their calcium intake
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The animals' teeth are constantly being worn down due to their tough diet. But rather than losing calcium this way, they could be recycling it to help grow their teeth back up to size
  • Robotic exoskeleton can train expert pianists to play faster
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour training session with a device that moves their fingers for them
  • Elusive phase change finally spotted in a quantum simulator
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Researchers saw a chain of atoms in a quantum simulator go from being magnetic to not magnetic at all, the first time such a change has ever been seen in one spatial dimension
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth
  • Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay
    Friday, January 17, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality
  • Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
  • NATO tests satellite internet as backup to sabotaged undersea cables
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstration of a project to quickly reroute crucial communications to satellite internet
  • Mind-controlled robotic arm lets people with paralysis touch and feel
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    By using MRI brain scans to identify regions linked to hand movements and sensations, researchers were able to restore a sense of touch to two people with paralysis – and one was able to control and feel a robot arm using his thoughts
  • Severe droughts are getting bigger, hotter, drier and longer
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Droughts lasting multiple years are becoming more common and extreme around the globe, expanding by about 50,000 square kilometres annually
  • Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people to sacrifice unique 'sun stones'
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Cultures News -- ScienceDaily
    4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large...
  • East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Cultures News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers carried out an archeogenetic study of human remains from more than 700 individuals from the Early Middle Ages. Two large burial sites, Modling and Leobersdorf, have been genetically analyzed in their entirety. The surprising...
  • Early humans adapted to harsh conditions more than a million years ago
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Early Human News
    A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.
  • Chasing sparks: Unraveling a 50-year-old X-ray mystery
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from NSF News
    A U.S. National Science Foundation-supported team recently solved an enduring physics enigma, revealing new information about how X-rays form during thunderstorms. Starting in the 1960s, scientists noticed a strange occurrence. When they...
  • Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other researchers believe it is probably a fake
  • The evidence that suggests you don’t need alcohol as a social crutch
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A reader is worried about socialising without the confidence boost she gets from alcohol. But studies show that the chemical isn’t necessary for easing our social inhibitions, our columnist David Robson advises
  • Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first launch
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos's firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch of the New Glenn rocket, though attempts to land the first stage at sea were unsuccessful
  • Humanoid robot learns to waltz by mirroring people's movements
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    An AI trained on motion capture recordings can help robots smoothly imitate human actions, such as dancing, walking and throwing punches
  • What can we learn from a debunked theory of depression?
    Thursday, January 16, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Rebutting the serotonin theory of depression exposed an important gap in our knowledge. But Joanna Moncrieff's new book Chemically Imbalanced takes too narrow a view of how we should react
  • Ancient society may have carved 'sun stones' to end volcanic winter
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky
  • Coyote genes may show urban evolution at work
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Evolutionary Biology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.
  • Zero-carbon shipping fuel could be a new source of pollution
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The shipping industry is planning to swap some fossil fuels for green ammonia – but that could create a major new source of nitrogen pollution
  • The science of exercise: Sticking to your New Year’s workout plan
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Most people don’t adhere to their New Year’s fitness resolutions. These science-backed tips can make you the exception
  • Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    At his best, Iain M. Banks could be extraordinarily stylish, inventive and downright funny. So how does his genre-redefining science fiction stand up to the test of time? Emily H. Wilson rereads the greats
  • Extraordinary images reveal the mysteries of Mars
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers
  • A rich guide to the science of imagination also digs into art
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Neurologist Adam Zeman's excellent exploration of the power and complexity of our imaginations literally needs more space to house all its riches
  • Could spider silk be the answer to sustainable fashion?
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In its latest instalment, Rowan Hooper reveals how by 2029, we had learned how to make synthetic spider silk, leading to a revolution...
  • Fancy publishing 'nonsense' and sabotaging your fellow scientists?
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Feedback explores the upsides (and downsides) of Publish or Perish, a game that simulates the experience of building a career in scientific research
  • What's next in the fight against malaria?
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    This month marks a year since the malaria vaccine rollout began. Here's what we still need in order to beat a disease as old as ancient Egypt, says Azra Ghani
  • Are we entering a dangerous new phase of climate change?
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A series of events, from the California wildfires to evidence we passed 1.5 degrees last year, suggests wild weather will become even more common
  • Protein shapes can help untangle life's ancient history
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Origin of Life News
    The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from protein shapes and combine it with...
  • Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Anthropology News -- ScienceDaily
    A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first time such a system has been documented...
  • Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women
  • Is a broken jet stream causing extreme weather that lasts longer?
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with potentially catastrophic consequences
  • Red Note and Lemon8 are not the TikTok refuges you are looking for
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The Chinese social media apps Red Note and Lemon8 have become popular alternatives for TikTok users ahead of a US government ban on TikTok. But government restrictions loom over those apps too
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