New Scientist - News
New Scientist - News
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Nuclear waste tanker pilots futuristic aluminium sail
Adding blade-like sails to tankers could reduce their annual fuel consumption by up to 30 per cent, slashing the climate impact of the shipping industry
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DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster
Researchers have managed to encode enormous amounts of information, including images, into DNA at a rate hundreds of times faster than was previously possible
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Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable
Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer
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A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system
A nearby star that exploded some 3 million years ago could have removed all dust smaller than a millimetre from the outer solar system
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All your questions about Marburg virus answered
Everything you need to know about Rwanda's outbreak of Marburg virus, which has been described as one of the deadliest human pathogens
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Extremely rare Bronze Age wooden tool found in English trench
In a wetland on the south coast of England, archaeologists dug up one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain, which is around 3500 years old
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The mystery of the missing La Niña continues – and we don't know why
A climate-cooling La Niña pattern was expected to develop in the Pacific Ocean months ago, but forecasters now say it won't appear until November
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Neuroscientist finds her brain shrinks while taking birth control
A researcher who underwent dozens of brain scans discovered that the volume of her cerebral cortex was 1 per cent lower when she took hormonal contraceptives
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Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century
A type of mathematical problem that was previously impossible to solve can now be successfully analysed with artificial intelligence
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Morphing red blood cells help bats hibernate - and we could do it too
Animals that hibernate need a way to keep their blood flowing as their body temperature drops, and it seems that the mechanical properties of red blood cells may be key