1 November 2022
Mohamed Nasr, Egypt’s chief climate negotiator, tells New Scientist that COP27 will focus on making sure existing promises are kept, rather than extracting new pledges
1 November 2022
An AI has been used to train robot dogs to toss cups into a garbage can or wipe a whiteboard with an eraser while cutting out hand-coding, which makes them one-tenth the usual cost
31 October 2022
Two neutron stars smashing together may produce a form of matter not seen before. If that happens, simulations suggest there would be a signal in gravitational waves resulting from the collision
31 October 2022
In a city in Brazil, male mosquitoes were released that expressed a gene that meant their female offspring, which bite and transmit infections, couldn't survive
31 October 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope has cast its eye on one of the oldest known galaxies, formed just 400 million years after the big bang, and it might be two galaxies merging
31 October 2022
The subvariants BQ.1.1 and XBB may somewhat evade prior immunity, however, further research is required
28 October 2022
A device that measures acceleration very precisely using quantum effects could be used for navigation when GPS is unavailable
28 October 2022
Smartphone data from more than 9 million people in the US reveals that big cities lead to greater socioeconomic segregation despite claims they reduce it
27 October 2022
Some centipedes swim by undulating their whole bodies from tail to head, the opposite direction that snakes and eels use, which helps cut down the drag created by their many legs
27 October 2022
While ordinary houseplants have little effect on pollution, two companies have developed genetically modified pothos plants that may have a bigger impact
