The engineer racing to run the world’s most dangerous algorithm
Craig Gidney is largely unknown outside of quantum computing, but his pioneering work on quantum circuits could have…
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Will muscle-boosting meds be the next big thing after GLP-1 drugs?
A number of drugs designed to prevent muscle loss and boost muscle growth are being tested in clinical trials.…
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Lack of sleep may cause anxiety by making us less adaptable to threats
People who were deprived of sleep overnight didn't seem to adapt to being in a potentially threatening space, which may…
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Why banishing irrational numbers could trigger a revolution in quantum theory
Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest…
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Risk of dementia could be halved with use of metformin
Taking metformin, a type 2 diabetes drug, has been linked to a lower risk of dementia over the following decades, but…
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How much water do you really need to drink to keep your brain sharp?
Water is essential for good brain function, with a handful of convincing studies suggesting that dehydration could be…
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Dice discovered that solve decade-long mathematical problem
After years of searching, mathematicians have found dice that can allow five players to fairly decide who moves first…
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From back pain to cancer, how the interstitium could transform medicine
For centuries, we’ve ignored the interstitium, but research is now revealing that this body-wide network of fluid is…
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Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour cookies
Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution are created each year. One option may be to turn the pollution into…
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‘Off the charts’ El Niño is already the strongest since records began
Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with…
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Greenland meltwater is intensifying European heatwaves
The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study…
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Burns improve more rapidly after treatment with fish skin
Severe burns are often treated with synthetic products ahead of skin graft surgery, but there is evidence that a…
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Super El Niño could lead to mega CO2 emissions from fires in Indonesia
Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up
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How long could we possibly live? A new estimate is mind-boggling
Biogerontologists are exploring the upper limit for human life. A recent study has it verging on two centuries – but…
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Strange gamma-ray signal could be most direct evidence of dark matter yet
Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter –…
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Will personalised mRNA vaccines transform cancer treatments?
A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising…
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Two emerging tick viruses that can be deadly are spreading in the US
Heartland virus and Bourbon virus, which are transmitted by lone star ticks, have killed at least seven people in the US
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Depression doesn’t shrink the brain like we thought it did
For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a…
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NASA calls off rescue effort to save doomed telescope
The Swift observatory will now re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, after a mission to boost it higher failed
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AI firms are watermarking generated text – here’s why it won’t work
AI companies have begun embedding watermarks in the output of their models to improve transparency and help crack down…
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Suggesting that ADHD is a myth is pseudoscientific and dangerous
ADHD is a real condition that can have serious consequences if undiagnosed. An ill-informed documentary that suggests…
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The wild, gripping story of the psychedelic secreted by desert toads
Kimon de Greef's The Ego Trip chronicles the rise of a potent psychedelic drug, from the toads that secrete it to the…
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It is finally time to talk about the impact of fluctuating hormones
For decades, women have felt the need to hide the impact of changes in their hormones, while scientists have excluded…
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This sci-fi novel is a riveting tale of an oppressive galactic empire
A rich widow, a disillusioned cop and a dim hypersled driver are caught in the machinations of the oppressive party…
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Stunning image of a polar bear with an outsized snack wins major award
Roie Galitz's breathtaking shot is one of the winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest, praised for its unusual…
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Twisteddoodles on distribution graphs (with added cats)
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Tom Gauld on popularity in the lab
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Don’t be an archaeologist in a movie if you want to survive
Josie Ford Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and…
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Are flies following a strategy when they keep hitting windows? Part 4
Answers continue to pour in as New Scientist readers ponder this question, with one reader widening it out to consider…
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What size of planet would prevent space travel due to gravity? Part 2
Our readers continue to grapple with this question, coming at it from different angles – and also considering how big a…
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Newly discovered immune hubs in our skull may keep our brain healthy
We may have clusters of immune cells at the back of our skull that help ward off conditions like brain cancer
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We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep
Two clusters of neurons in the brains of mice seem to create the drive to get some shuteye, potentially hinting at a…
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5-year-old brain organoids can sense the passing of time
Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they…
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Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancer
People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and…
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AI could offer a shortcut for designing more efficient airplane wings
AI agents devised a way to reduce friction of an airplane wing model even without access to a costly computer simulation
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How wakeful rest may boost brain power in a manner similar to sleep
To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest…
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