We’ve spotted a weird galaxy that’s missing all its dark matter
4 April 2018
Most galaxies have more mysterious dark matter than bright stars and gas. But this galaxy has no dark matter, killing off some alternate ideas of gravity
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Robots won't take as many of our jobs as we feared, says report
4 April 2018
New OECD report says that the risk of jobs being handed over to artificial intelligence is a lot lower than previously forecast
Mind-reading headset lets you Google just with your thoughts
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A mind-reading device can answer questions in your head. It works by picking up signals sent from your brain when you think about saying something
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Snap, crackle, pop
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Hair shadows
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During the recent total solar eclipse in the US, I overlapped my hands, using the gaps between my fingers to form "pinholes". Just before the start of totality, someone noticed that the shadows formed through this "pinhole camera" onto a whiteboard were...
Feedback: How $38bn worth of nuclear material vanished overnight
4 April 2018
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Old Scientist: Safety first, from fly killer to plutonium
4 April 2018
There are a terrifying number of ways to be unsafe, as a look through the April archives of New Scientist shows
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4 April 2018
A new book's ambitious plan to spot and stop global epidemics is easier said than done unless governments show willing and fund a real scheme to do just that
How medicine got too good for its own good
4 April 2018
We’re detecting problems too early and convincing healthy people they’re sick – it’s time to rethink medical diagnosis, says physician H. Gilbert Welch
