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These two new sci-fi novels really impressed us
A time traveller must fight for love in Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time, while a single-celled alien is perplexed by Earth’s biology
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Some climate damage is now unavoidable even if we clean up our act
With the world looking likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming, the plan is now to reduce our carbon emissions after overshooting the target. What
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Tom Gauld on arriving late to the party
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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Twisteddoodles on a cat’s-eye view of science
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Falling sea levels due to El Niño will hit mangroves and corals
As sea level rise in the eastern Pacific, they are falling around Australia and the Coral Triangle, leaving some mangroves and corals high a
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A single antimatter particle was held in a trap for months
After trapping a positron for the first time, physicists plan to use the resulting data to look for answers to one of particle physics’ bigg
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UK’s rewards for North Sea drilling will be droughts, floods and fires
The decision to proceed with the Jackdaw gas field will make the UK complicit in pushing up greenhouse gas emissions and give other countrie
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The world’s first spinal cord transplant has been performed in Russia
A surgeon has told New Scientist they have performed a transplant on someone with a complete spinal cord injury using a piece of spinal cord
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UN says 1.5°C is over and world is on track for 2.8°C of global warming
The best-case scenario now is that the planet will only temporarily breach 1.5°C of warming, but current climate pledges fall way short of t
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1 in 4 cases of depression may be caused by off-kilter body clocks
Depression has long been linked to chemical imbalances, but many cases may actually be related to disrupted body clocks that could be treate
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Parasite-infected mosquitoes released in Europe for first time
Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can transmit infections suc
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1000 human mathematicians pledge to shun AI in their research
There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tackling mathematical problems – and now some mathematicians are op
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Where does the ‘extreme male brain’ sit in our better understanding of autism?
Simon Baron-Cohen’s influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of aut
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The roots of AI fear in the West are cultural, not technological
Popular conceptions of AI differ drastically between the US and China. Columnist Annalee Newitz dives into the cultural, religious and sci-f
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It’s about to be a lot harder to keep countries honest about climate change
A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts
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Bottlenose whales may look after each other when they’re sick
Northern bottlenose whales are more likely to stick together when individuals are poorly or emaciated
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Discovery of T. rex’s cousin upends our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution
A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding of how they evol
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Are we about to solve the greatest mystery of the neutrino?
We have long had a seemingly simple question about neutrinos: how much do they weigh? Now, a gigantic experiment in China is poised to find
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Error-correction record pushes quantum computers closer to usefulness
Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just broke the recor
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El Niño is dramatically increasing sea levels – how bad could it get?
El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen, there could be coa
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Why the Drake equation is still important 65 years after its creation
The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime example of the import
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Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site
Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravin
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Noise-cancelling headphones prevent vomiting after surgery
Nausea and vomiting are common after surgery, which may be partly related to the noises patients are exposed to, even under general anaesthe
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Japan is launching a mission to Mars’s largest moon Phobos
The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, set to launch on 20 October, will bring back samples that should solve a moon mystery that has bee
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