Science

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ season 4, episode 11 ‘Rosetta’ has the away team on an acid trip

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Star Trek: Discovery” season 4, episode 11 The first episode of “Star Trek: Picard” dropped on Paramount Plus this week, in an interesting move from the television studio. Perhaps they were hoping “Discovery” would benefit from the enormous publicity campaign that’s being adopted for the second season starring Patrick Stewart, otherwise … Read more

Lego rolls out Artemis toy sets ahead of new NASA moon missions

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Lego rolled out its version of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) on Tuesday (March 1), two weeks before the space agency was scheduled to do the same with the real moon-bound rocket. The toy company released the SLS and three other sets inspired by NASA’s Artemis program as part of an expansion to its long-running … Read more

Chocolate, music and research fuel Martian life at HI-SEAS – Commander’s report: sol 6

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Dr. Michaela Musilova is the director of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) program, which conducts analog missions to the moon and Mars for scientific research at a habitat on the volcano Mauna Loa. Currently, she is in command of the two-week Valoria 3 Martian mission and contributed this report to Space.com’s Expert … Read more

Why Sex Chromosomes Matter When It Comes to Heart Disease

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Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body.   People with XX chromosomes typically identify as female, and people with XY chromosomes typically identify as male. The genes … Read more

Eating More Bugs Could Help The Environment Even More Than We Thought

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Insects have been touted as a food of the future, not least because of the sustainability benefits. An excellent protein source, they take up significantly fewer resources to produce when compared to traditional farming. Give your farm of mealworms around 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of food and you’ll get a kilogram of edible protein; with beef, … Read more

Don’t Miss: New Scientist Live, the greatest science show on Earth

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Katie Yu Watch Upload, a sci-fi comedy that satirises the idea of a digital afterlife, returns for a second season. Created by Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation, Space Force), the series will be available on Amazon Prime Video from 11 March. Visit New Scientist Live will be at Manchester Central and online from 12 March. … Read more

Bigbug review: A sci-fi comedy about a sexy kind of singularity

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The new slapstick sci-fi offering by French directorial royalty Jean-Pierre Jeunet is plagued by predictable innuendo Humans 2 March 2022 By Gregory Wakeman Romance can get complicated when you are locked in with a sex robot while the androids attack Bruno Calvo/Netflix Bigbug Jean-Pierre Jeunet Netflix JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET is widely regarded as one of the … Read more

Rory Mc Donnell interview: The slug hunter with a strange new weapon

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By Rory Mc Donnell Jennie Edwards SLUGS and snails may not look frightening, but don’t be fooled. Poking out from beneath their slimy bodies is a tongue-like appendage called a radula, covered with thousands of tiny teeth. As gardeners know to their cost, this is a tool of extreme destructive power, which can shred stems … Read more