Why we should go back to the moon – and this time to build a home
14 September 2022
Achieving a lunar outpost is important not as a means of escaping our home planet, but learning better ways to thrive on it
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Cold water swimming should be introduced as a public health measure
14 September 2022
Outdoor swimming helps reduce inflammation, which is linked to health issues ranging from heart disease to depression. It should be widely adopted as a public health measure, says Mark Harper
Stop calling it social media - these firms don't care what we want
14 September 2022
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and their ilk were meant to let us chat freely in a digital public square, but the firms running social media are just as corporate as old media, says Annalee Newitz
Google AI can tell what things smell like by the molecular structure
12 September 2022
An artificial intelligence model that maps the structure of molecules to their smell could help create specific food tastes or find compounds to better repel disease-carrying organisms like mosquitoes
Sydney residents in cultural evolution war with bin-raiding cockatoos
12 September 2022
Sulphur-crested cockatoos are defying human efforts to keep them out of bins by copying each other’s tricks, but more effective strategies to thwart them are passed on between humans too
Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life
12 September 2022
Ribosomes, tiny structures where proteins are produced inside cells, have been made to self-replicate outside cells for the first time, which could help us understand the origins of life
Quantum diamond sensor used to measure neuron activity in mouse tissue
12 September 2022
The activity of neurons has been measured in a slice of mouse tissue using a quantum diamond sensor – and it might one day enable a new type of non-invasive brain scanning
Sensory trick makes objects seem heavy or light in virtual reality
10 September 2022
Vibrating pads placed on people's arms can make the illusion of weight in virtual reality more convincing by tricking the brain to disregard some input from our senses
New York has declared a state of emergency for polio
9 September 2022
Poliovirus types known to cause paralysis have now been found in wastewater samples from five counties in New York state, and genetic tests confirm community spread
Huge satellite could outshine all stars and planets in the night sky
9 September 2022
Astronomers are concerned that the BlueWalker 3 satellite, which will use an antenna the size of a squash court to beam internet to mobile phones, could outshine everything in the night sky except for the moon
