Space
NASA Launches Six CubeSats to International Space Station
Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission.
As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company’s Cygnus...
Life
People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
A hospital in the US has had to concede to an unusual request from patients requiring blood transfusions: that...
Life
Requests for blood from unvaccinated donors is harming patients
A hospital in the US has had to concede to an unusual request from patients requiring blood transfusions: that...
Environment
Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
Monkeys fitted with a brain-computer interface (BCI) successfully navigated a variety of virtual worlds using only their thoughts. Researchers...
Life
New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett’s insightful How to Talk to AI
I don’t use AI chatbots, so you might wonder what use I could make of Jamie Bartlett’s book, How...
Life
Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn’t the best plan ever
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you...
Life
Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
Ghost Elephants Werner Herzog, Disney+
Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge –...
Space
A dark energy tool just created the most comprehensive 3D map of our universe ever: ‘This is a major paradigm shift’
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year mission to build the largest 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed in order to investigate dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. The...
Environment
Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
Neanderthal babies may have physically dwarfed their Homo sapiens counterparts, according to a new study that examined an infant skeleton...
Life
Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
A five-year survey of the sky that has captured more than 47 million galaxies and quasars is now complete,...
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US court limits mail-order access to abortion pill mifepristone
The court decision curbs access to the drug used in medication abortions, which is currently the most common method...