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All That Breathes review: Rescuing raptors in Delhi

All That Breathes review: Rescuing raptors in Delhi

28 September 2022

In this award-winning and compelling documentary, rescuing the injured black kites and water birds of Delhi is a family effort, finds Simon Ings


Don't Miss: Take part in a sci-fi adventure at London's Science Museum

Don't Miss: Take part in a sci-fi adventure at London's Science Museum

28 September 2022

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss


Adam buying seed Luang Prabang market

The Seed Detective review: Why we must save rare vegetables

28 September 2022

Saving unusual vegetable varieties from extinction is essential for protecting crop diversity, which is under threat from mechanisation, argues Adam Alexander in his richly detailed new book


Anti-Body review: Exploring our transhuman future with dance

Anti-Body review: Exploring our transhuman future with dance

28 September 2022

Who and what will we become as the future unfolds? Anti-Body at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London is a dance work that uses motion-capture tech to show how our influence extends beyond our physical bodies into the digital world


Wild boar appear destructive, but they make excellent conservationists

Wild boar appear destructive, but they make excellent conservationists

28 September 2022

Keystone species such as wild boar, eagles and lynx were managing the planet quite well for millions of years before humans got involved. We must cherish them, says Benedict Macdonald


We are finally waking up to the causes of insomnia and how to treat it

We are finally waking up to the causes of insomnia and how to treat it

28 September 2022

Millions of people struggle with insomnia, but the sleep disorder is now a solvable problem – and the most effective therapy might involve your smartphone rather than sleeping pills


Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the objects that reveal the Neanderthal mind

Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the objects that reveal the Neanderthal mind

27 September 2022

Cognitive archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes says we can learn something about the minds of Neanderthals by studying the stuff they left behind, from painted shells to stalagmite circles. We might even find hints about why they went extinct


Rylea-Ann was unable to walk before receiving the gene therapy

Gene therapy infused into the brain eases rare condition in children

27 September 2022

A gene-replacement therapy has eased the debilitating symptoms in a group of 30 children with AADC deficiency


Tikal National Park - part of the Maya Forest in Guatemala

Guatemala’s rainforest is expanding thanks to community efforts

26 September 2022

The forests of the Maya Biosphere Reserve are growing rather than shrinking, because of a community-led conservation programme


A postprocessed version of a photo that has been made blurry by a signal injection attack

Spoofing cyberattack can make cameras see things that aren’t there

26 September 2022

A targeted transmission of radio waves can disrupt what a camera detects – and the technology has the potential to fool object-detection systems into seeing things that aren’t there


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