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AI-powered smartphone cameras are changing the way we see reality

13 March 2019

Smartphone cameras now use artificial intelligence to completely transform the pictures we take, and it could change the way we see reality

Venezuela has suffered power blackouts for days

13 March 2019

Many Venezuelans have had no power for nearly a week. The cause appears to be a fault at a hydropower plant that powers 80 per cent of the country

To avert environmental disaster, we need to return to the trees

13 March 2019

We need to radically rethink how we obtain energy, move ourselves around, build cities and use land. Wood has plausible answers for all of these

UK science salaries top £40k for the first time

13 March 2019

Earnings for scientists and engineers in the UK have grown faster than inflation this year, but Brexit uncertainty casts a shadow over future prospects, according to the 2019 New Scientist/SRG salary survey

Flower hat jelly has colour-tipped tentacles for paralysing small fish

13 March 2019

The flower hat jelly uses its fluorescent-tipped tentacles to catch and kill small fish by paralysing them with venom

Bee tougher

13 March 2019

Almost every pest organism, from weeds to rats, seems able to develop resistance to chemicals used to kill them. Yet honeybees seem unable to resist the chemicals said to be contributing to their decline. Why?

Intimate Contact

13 March 2019

From a pathogenic perspective, which is more dangerous, to be licked by an animal or kissed by a human?

Duck stone

13 March 2019

I found a grey stone with an image of a white bird on a beach in north Donegal, Ireland. How would this structure have been formed? How did the white rock get into the grey rock?