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Which animal has the most sensory access to reality? Given the worldwide impact of carbon dioxide, why is it still used to put the fizz …
Some climate damage is now unavoidable even if we clean up our …
With the world looking likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming, the plan is now to reduce our carbon emissions after overshooting the target. What lasting …
Tom Gauld on arriving late to the party
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Twisteddoodles on a cat’s-eye view of science
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
Falling sea levels due to El Niño will hit mangroves and corals
As sea levels rise in the eastern Pacific, they are falling around Australia and the Coral Triangle, leaving some mangroves and corals high and dry
A single antimatter particle was held in a trap for months
After trapping a positron for the first time, physicists plan to use the resulting data to look for answers to one of particle physics’ biggest …
UK’s rewards for North Sea drilling will be droughts, floods and fires
The decision to proceed with the Jackdaw gas field will make the UK complicit in pushing up greenhouse gas emissions and give other countries an …
The world’s first spinal cord transplant has been performed in Russia
A surgeon has told New Scientist they have performed a transplant on someone with a complete spinal cord injury using a piece of spinal cord …
UN says 1.5°C is over and world is on track for 2.8°C …
The best-case scenario now is that the planet will only temporarily breach 1.5°C of warming, but current climate pledges fall way short of that hope
1 in 4 cases of depression may be caused by off-kilter body …
Many cases of depression may be related to disrupted body clocks, with this understanding offering new ways to treat it
Parasite-infected mosquitoes released in Europe for first time
Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of insects that can transmit infections such as dengue
The controversial legacy of a ‘male’ theory of autism
Simon Baron-Cohen’s influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of autism, has his perspective changed?
1000 human mathematicians pledge to shun AI in their research
There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tackling mathematical problems – and now some mathematicians are opting to avoid …
The roots of AI fear in the West are cultural, not technological
Popular conceptions of AI differ drastically between the US and China. Columnist Annalee Newitz dives into the cultural, religious and sci-fi factors driving our impressions …
Are we about to solve the greatest mystery of the neutrino?
We have long had a seemingly simple question about neutrinos: how much do they weigh? Now, a gigantic experiment in China is poised to find …
It’s about to get a lot harder to keep countries honest about …
A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts
Bottlenose whales may look after each other when they’re sick
Northern bottlenose whales are more likely to stick together when individuals are poorly or emaciated
Discovery of T. rex’s cousin upends our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution
A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding of how they evolved
Error-correction record pushes quantum computers closer to usefulness
Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just broke the record for how reliable they …
El Niño is dramatically increasing sea levels – how bad could it …
El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen, there could be …
Why the Drake equation is still important 65 years after its creation
The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime example of …
Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were …
Noise-cancelling headphones prevent vomiting after surgery
Nausea and vomiting are common after surgery, which may be partly related to the noises patients are exposed to, even under general anaesthetic. Wearing noise-cancelling …
Japan is launching a mission to Mars’s largest moon Phobos
The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, set to launch on 20 October, will bring back samples that should solve a moon mystery that has been vexing …
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