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Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America

10 January 2018

The same cold weather that has caused frozen sharks to wash up on the US East Coast has given us a light show more often seen in polar regions

We must accept more risks if we want space travel to take off

10 January 2018

Going to space is already one of the most dangerous things a person can do, but we will need to take far more risks than we do in order to push space exploration forward

Latest measurement of a proton's mass has got physicists puzzled

10 January 2018

Knowing the mass of the proton is key to understanding matter, but nobody can agree on it. The latest, most precise measurement further muddies the waters

Finland to trial nasal spray as gambling addiction treatment

10 January 2018

Next week, a trial in Finland will begin testing a nasal spray in problem gamblers. The spray contains a drug normally used to reverse opioid overdoses

Science helped cause the opioid crisis – now it must make amends

10 January 2018

A US commission recommending how to solve the painkiller addiction killing 175 Americans a day also shows how opinion got in the way of fact to help cause the problem

Plant life

10 January 2018

A recent New Scientist article "The most ancient piece of you" (4 November 2017) discussed the common ancestors of living beings today. But are plants included in this universal common ancestor? If so, are we linked to plants in very early stages of...

Auger awe

10 January 2018

How can a tube as flimsy as a mosquito's proboscis be stiff enough to act as a hollow boring tool? What is it made of and what is the typical wall thickness of this amazing auger? Also, what is the minimum capillary diameter through which blood could...

Winding up

10 January 2018

Most of the discussion around climate change naturally revolves around temperature, but have wind speeds increased and become more variable? It seems to me that they have.