New Scientist

◆ Blood test detects Alzheimer's plaques building up in brain

◆ California climate case turns up the heat on fossil fuel giants

◆ How the dark web's gunrunners covertly ship US weapons to Europe

◆ Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

◆ Bioinspired tube robot can sneak round corners and turn on taps

◆ Robot physical therapist helps people walk again after a stroke

◆ First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

◆ How the opioid crisis may have saved US healthcare

◆ First Australians may have arrived much earlier than we thought

◆ Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface

◆ The death of smoking: how tobacco will be eradicated for good

◆ We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

◆ Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle

◆ Why fast birds, fish and animals are never too small or big

◆ What is chemsex and why is the UK government worried about it?

◆ Rising life expectancy in England has slowed since recession

◆ Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints

◆ Quantum simulator with 51 qubits is largest ever

◆ Never-before-seen photos of leopard cub being raised by a lion

◆ The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity

◆ At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

◆ UK government wants only 12 per cent of adults to smoke by 2022

◆ Prenatal test spots genetic anomalies linked to miscarriage

◆ Find your next must-play game by flying through a virtual galaxy

◆ Large carnivores have lost more than 90 per cent of their range

◆ Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

◆ US ranked worst healthcare system, while the NHS is the best

◆ AI doctors should improve healthcare, but not at any cost

◆ Laws of mathematics don't apply here, says Australian PM

◆ AI coach will train hopeless chatbots to pass the Turing test

Scientific American

◆ The Larsen C Iceberg Is Already Cracking Up

◆ Earth's Tectonic Activity May Be Crucial for Life -- and Rare in Our Galaxy

◆ Teaching Computers to Enjoy the View

◆ Watch a Wolf Pup Vet Visit

◆ Buried Tools and Pigments Tell a New History of Humans in Australia for 65,000 Years

◆ Stellar Winds Could Be Bad News for Life on TRAPPIST-1 Planets

◆ 3 Toxic Thinking Habits That Feed Your Insecurity

◆ No Evidence for Past Martian Civilization, Scientists Tell Congress

◆ Schools Are Turning to Virtual Doctors for Sick Kids

◆ The U.S. Is Not Ready to Clean Up an Arctic Oil Spill

◆ Can You Hear Me Now? How to Protect Yourself From Voice Hackers

◆ Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware

◆ Raising Alcohol Taxes Can Curtail Assaults and Suicides

◆ Satellite Snafu Masked True Sea Level Rise for Decades

◆ Robust Emergency Fund Needed to Respond to Future Disease Outbreaks

◆ Untangling the Mystery of How Fido Became Humankind's Best Friend

◆ Space Stations: Archaeological Sites in Low-Earth Orbit

◆ Nasty, Brutish and Short: Are Humans DNA-Wired to Kill?

◆ What Goes On in Our Brains When We Are in Love?

◆ Too Sunny in Philadelphia? Satellites Zero in on Dangerous Urban Heat Islands

◆ Super-Earths May Explain Curious Gaps in Planet-Forming Disks

◆ Astronomers Detect Strange Signals from Red Dwarf Star

◆ The Real Costs of Cheap Surveillance

◆ California Locales Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Rising Seas

◆ The Ketamine Breakthrough for Suicidal Children

BBC Science/Nature

◆ Why dogs are friendly - it's written in their genes

◆ Australia human history 'rewritten by rock find'

◆ UK rhino eggs 'could save last northern whites'

◆ Mighty T. rex 'walked rather than sprinted'

◆ How did dogs become our best friends? New evidence

◆ LISA Pathfinder: Time called on Europe's gravity probe

◆ Is there such a thing as 'flying ant day'?

◆ California votes to extend cap-and-trade climate law to 2030

◆ Scottish osprey chicks moved to Spain

◆ Drifting Antarctic iceberg A-68 opens up clear water

◆ Why the cheetah is a champion sprinter

◆ Scientists marvel at creatures' 'precise' body clock

◆ A mission to the Pacific plastic patch

◆ World's large carnivores being pushed off the map

◆ Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths' Fields Medal, dies

◆ Butterfly numbers facing 'vital' period - Sir David Attenborough

◆ Waste products, not crops, key to boosting UK biofuels

◆ Gannet bonanza on Yorkshire cliffs

◆ Record number of environmental activists killed around the world

◆ Blue whale takes centre-stage at Natural History Museum

◆ Behold Jupiter's Great Red Spot

◆ UK animal experiments fall by 5% - annual figures

◆ Bialowieza Forest: Poland sued over ancient woods logging

◆ Giant iceberg splits from Antarctic

◆ 'Make new rules' to save the oceans

◆ Telescopes to reach nine billion light years away

◆ Will wildcat lynx be reintroduced to the UK?

◆ Ancient underwater forest found in US

◆ Plastic found in remote South Pacific

◆ The farmer helping to cut cow farts

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