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By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein JIRAROJ PRADITCHAROENKUL/Alamy Stock Photo ONE of the best things about being a columnist for New Scientist is the readers. I can tell you read my columns closely because I get fantastic emails asking smart questions about them. Last month, I wrote about how fusion works inside the local plasma gas ball, otherwise … Read more
By Anna Turns Michelle D’urbano MORE than a decade ago, the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry offered £1 million to the first person in the world to create a chemical-free product. No one has yet claimed the bounty because it is impossible. Water is a chemical. So is your cuppa. Yet there is still so … Read more
Early studies show that to fight new variants like Omicron boosters are necessary Credit: Scientific American Health & Medicine, February 2022 Advertisement This article was originally published with the title “Our Best Bets against COVID” in SA Health & Medicine 4, 1, (February 2022) ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Andrea Gawrylewski is the collections editor at Scientific … Read more
By Elle Hunt Kirsten and her close friend August stick together to survive HBO Max/Warner Media TV Station Eleven Created by Patrick Somerville EARLY in the covid-19 pandemic, as people struggled to make sense of the unfolding global crisis, many turned to stories almost as often as the latest news and science. In January 2020, … Read more
By Adam Vaughan Using a crane to lift weights and then release them to generate energy later is one novel approach being tried for energy storage. Energy Vault This is Fix the Planet, the weekly climate change newsletter that reminds you there are reasons for hope in science and technology around the world. To receive … Read more
Despite efforts to reduce light pollution from the satellites, their disruptions of astronomical observations are increasing at an alarming pace — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Josie Ford Guess the planet Feedback has always been mildly sceptical of, not to say narked by, requests to click on pictures of bicycles and fire hydrants to prove we aren’t a robot. True, no one has ever seen an algorithm riding a bicycle, but when the shape-shifting terminator bots finally arrive, they will probably … Read more
Our life satisfaction is shaped by many things including our genes and relative wealth, but there is now good evidence that you can boost your basic happiness with these key psychological strategies Humans 19 January 2022 By David Robson Tara Moore/Getty Images; Matt Dartford WHAT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY? You probably know the type: those Pollyannas … Read more
In an experiment paving the way for clinical trials, two pig kidneys produced urine for 77 hours after transplantation into the body of a brain-dead man Health 20 January 2022 By Michael Le Page Surgeons preparing the pig kidneys for transplantation Jeff Myers, UAB Two pig kidneys genetically engineered to prevent rejection by the immune … Read more
Throughout human history, astronomers have helped people understand what they see in the night sky. These famous astronomers — many of them great scientists who mastered many fields — explained space phenomena with varying degrees of accuracy. Over the centuries, a geocentric view of the universe — with Earth at the center of everything — … Read more