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Low and no-alcohol drinks taste better than ever – but do they really help you cut down on boozing, and are they healthier than the real thing? Health 5 January 2022 By Graham Lawton Shutterstock/sirtravelalot IT IS Thursday lunchtime, and I am already on my third beer. I have also got a G&T under my … Read more
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu and Layal Liverpool People wearing masks in the streets of Lyon, France. KONRAD K/SIPA/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 1pm on 5 January SARS-CoV-2 variant found in France was identified in November A coronavirus variant first … Read more
IN RECENT YEARS, underground chemists have increasingly made small chemical tweaks on known recreational drugs to skirt laws, creating novel designer versions. Instead of cannabis, for instance, these chemists could offer up XLR-11, or instead of PCP they might have 3-MeO-PCE. Novel designer drugs, also called research chemicals or legal highs, still produce physiological and psychological effects, though … Read more
Scientists have just created the world’s lightest form of magnesium — a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei.
Comet Leonard is falling out of view, but not without putting on one last show. Discovered just a year ago, the comet, formally known as Comet C/2021 A1, made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, marking the climax of a month full of prime observing opportunities. As the comet has continued on its … Read more
China welcomed the New Year with a live stream from cameras outside the new Tianhe space station module. In a new video from the China National Space Administration, livestreamed on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1), you can now see the beauty of the Earth below from the Tianhe module on China’s Tiangong space station. China Central … Read more
When a Goodyear blimp–sized chunk of ice fell from a collapsing glacier on the Swiss Alps’ Mount Eiger in 2017, part of the rumble it produced was too low for human ears to detect. But these vibrations held a key to calculating the ice avalanche’s critical characteristics. Low-frequency sound waves called infrasound that travel great … Read more
By Matthew Sparkes Bitcoin has no physical form, so is hard to track 2017 Getty Images POLICE forces across the UK have seized bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies valued at almost a third of a billion pounds during criminal investigations, New Scientist can reveal. But this figure may be only a tiny fraction of the illicit … Read more
A large, rocky asteroid is going to fly by Earth next week. At 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) long, it’s roughly two and a half times the height of the Empire State Building, and it’s been classed a “Potentially Hazardous Asteroid” due to its size and its regular close visits to our planet. But don’t … Read more
A 2,700-year-old drop toilet, found at an ancient royal estate in southern Jerusalem, still shows traces of what could have been an epidemic of parasitic infection long ago. The findings suggest even the wealthiest inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem, elite enough to use an outhouse, commonly suffered from intestinal worms. While latrines and toilets are … Read more