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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt
In this extract from Daisy Fancourt's Art Cure, the March read for the New Scientist Book Club, we l...
We all harbour 9 secrets and they are eating us up...
Secret-keeping evolved to maintain social harmony, but it can weigh heavily on us when we can’t stop...
Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better ...
Superconducting computing circuits were briefly heralded as the future of computing in the 1980s. Co...
Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses w...
The congenital condition spina bifida is often treated surgically in the womb, but many children sti...
When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usu...
Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate,...
Banning children from VPNs and social media will e...
Legislation working its way through the UK parliament would ban children from using social media and...
How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare ...
Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary align...
Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide re...
The UK's first geothermal plant in Cornwall is part of a wave of projects aiming to meet growing ele...
Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should...
Both boosters and sceptics have strongly held opinions on AI tools like ChatGPT, but after an experi...
SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environm...
The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled w...
Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicke...
The alvarezsaurs were thought to have evolved a smaller stature because of their diet of ants and te...
The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions ...
The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now ch...
Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just g...
The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,00...
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war...
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in...
Rapamycin can add years to your life, or none at a...
The drug rapamycin has been held up for its life-extending properties, but whether this treatment – ...
Cannibalism may explain why some orcas stay in fam...
Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other or...
How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented th...
Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could th...
Landmark vitiligo cream targets immune cells that ...
A cream that directly disrupts the underlying causes of the skin patches seen in the condition vitil...
