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New Scientist recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can …
Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley …
What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths
In the ChatGPT era, a war over the nature of intelligence is playing out. Chris Stokel-Walker explores a Princeton professor's engaging take
The maths quirk that can cheer you up if you're feeling unpopular
If you feel like the least popular person among your friends, then a handy piece of maths might improve your mood, says Peter Rowlett
We need to get better at identifying postpartum depression in dads
Around 40 per cent of people are unaware that men can experience postpartum depression too — that has to change
Why some people cannot move on from the death of a loved …
Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neuroscience behind it
Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years
Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with …
Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and …
Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is …
How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those everywhere else
Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to …
Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
Running 170 kilometres over mountainous terrain caused people's red blood cells to accumulate more age-related damage than those of less ambitious athletes
WHO validates elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Libya
WHO today announced that Libya has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, a landmark victory for public health in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region. This …
Gorton and Denton by-election candidates' minute manifestoes
Who is standing in the Greater Manchester constituency of Gorton and Denton?
No trees, no food, shot for fun … yet Serbia’s imperial eagles …
Less than a decade ago, the Balkan country had just one breeding pair of the eastern imperial species of raptor left. Now things are changing, …
Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?
A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according to the company developing …
Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the lunar poles would be the …
The fallout from Labour's local elections U-turn is not over yet
Keir Starmer and his team knew last week that delays to council elections would need to be reversed.
The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us …
The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence is revealing …
Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it …
‘It’s betrayal’: Shetland’s scallop fishers brace for arrival of UK’s largest salmon …
Huge project by Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms gets go-ahead amid concerns over the environmental cost of fish farming and threat to traditional way of lifeAt …
Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better tackle the problem the next …
Global commitment on display as countries negotiate key annex to the Pandemic …
Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a weeklong round of negotiations on draft annex for Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) – …
The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in …
Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces depression symptoms more than a placebo …
We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is …
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