Space & Physics

Mosquitoes dodge efforts to swat them by surfing a wave of air

Mosquitoes dodge efforts to swat them by surfing a wave...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 20

A combination of keen senses and quick reflexes may help mosquitoes avoid a stic...

Huge rise in US overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants

Huge rise in US overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed wit...

SIN Sep 14, 2023 0 34

Between 2010 and 2021, the proportion of drug overdose deaths in the US involvin...

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 32

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

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 52

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 20

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 27

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 19

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

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 20

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 51

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 25

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 27

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

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 39

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

Male cockatoos make customised drumsticks for their mating displays

Male cockatoos make customised drumsticks for their mat...

SIN Sep 13, 2023 0 52

Palm cockatoos fashion sticks for drumming on trees by snapping off branches and...

Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet ...

SIN Sep 12, 2023 0 28

Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets S...

NASA Sets Coverage for Launch, Docking of New Space Station Crew

NASA Sets Coverage for Launch, Docking of New Space Sta...

SIN Sep 12, 2023 0 25

A NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are set to launch to the Internati...

English rivers regularly pumped full of oxygen to prevent fish deaths

English rivers regularly pumped full of oxygen to preve...

SIN Sep 12, 2023 0 52

In the past five years, there have been almost 100 cases of the UK's Environment...

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