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Frogs have been trying to mate with odd things for 220 million years

Frogs have been trying to mate with odd things for 220 ...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 5

Male frogs will sometimes try to mate with turtles or inanimate objects, and now...

Why Hurricane Lee Is Growing Bigger

Why Hurricane Lee Is Growing Bigger

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 3

Hurricane Lee is no longer a Category 5 storm but has grown in size as it has tr...

Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 'Planetary Boundaries'

Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 'Planetary Boundaries'

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 3

Scientists analyzed nine so-called planetary boundaries and found humans are cur...

A note from our editor on New Scientist Live 2023

A note from our editor on New Scientist Live 2023

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 26

With just a few weeks to go, now is the time to grab your tickets to the world’s...

Stone Age carvings of animal footprints identified by expert trackers

Stone Age carvings of animal footprints identified by e...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 3

Animal footprints carved into rock thousands of years ago depict over 40 species...

Humans use a quarter of all the biomass created by plants on land

Humans use a quarter of all the biomass created by plan...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 6

To stay within safe planetary boundaries, humans should only use around 10 per c...

Moderna's improved mRNA covid-19 vaccine is effective at lower doses

Moderna's improved mRNA covid-19 vaccine is effective a...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 3

A streamlined version of Moderna’s vaccine that targets only key parts of the sp...

Ancient Human Fossil Trip to Space Raises Questions and Criticism

Ancient Human Fossil Trip to Space Raises Questions and...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 3

The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebro...

Reusable rocket built by students is about to launch to space

Reusable rocket built by students is about to launch to...

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 3

The Karman Space Programme, set up by students at Imperial College London, will ...

How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 24

Time scales in my favourite soap opera Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this h...

DNA-based computer can run 100 billion different programs

DNA-based computer can run 100 billion different programs

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 4

Mixing and matching various strands of DNA can create versatile biological compu...

Superglue alternative made from soya is strong but biodegradable

Superglue alternative made from soya is strong but biod...

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 5

Most adhesives are made from fossil fuels and take thousands of years to biodegr...

A Broken Employment System Leaves Autistic Adults Stranded

A Broken Employment System Leaves Autistic Adults Stranded

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 23

Only 1.1 percent of autistic adults in the U.S. access key publicly funded emplo...

Vivitrol, Used to Fight Opioid Misuse, Has a Major Overdose Problem

Vivitrol, Used to Fight Opioid Misuse, Has a Major Over...

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 4

A recent examination of Vivitrol’s clinical trial data uncovered many hidden ove...

The earliest black holes seen by JWST appear to be unusually massive

The earliest black holes seen by JWST appear to be unus...

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 4

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest supermassive black holes ...

Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think

Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 32

A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’...

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