New Scientist

◆ Sexual images are just as arousing for women as they are for men

◆ The plan to build mega wind farms and artificial islands in North Sea

◆ Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive

◆ There aren't enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts

◆ Anorexia is a metabolic disorder as well as a psychiatric one

◆ Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants

◆ You're less empathetic when you've been drinking heavily

◆ India's moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch

◆ Targeting mitochondria in neurons may help relieve severe forms of MS

◆ Regulating e-cigarette flavours may prompt some people to smoke more

◆ Healthy living lowers chances of dementia even if genetic risk is high

◆ Something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos

◆ Storm Barry is heading towards New Orleans – how big is the risk?

◆ Purple fairy wrasse named Wakanda discovered on reef in twilight zone

◆ Double heatwave killed two-thirds of coral in central Indian Ocean

◆ Climate change may thin high-altitude clouds and trigger more warming

◆ People in China consume twice the recommended daily limit of salt

◆ Combining two cancer drugs could help slow growth of tumours

◆ AI beats professionals at six-player Texas Hold 'Em poker

◆ Molecules pictured changing shape as they gain and lose electrons

◆ Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight

◆ Hear what music would have sounded like at Stonehenge 4000 years ago

◆ Unknown species of lizard found inside a gliding dinosaur's stomach

◆ Whale mothers and calves whisper to avoid attracting predators

◆ India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moon's south pole

◆ French healthcare will stop paying for homeopathic treatment in 2021

◆ Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium

◆ Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample

◆ UK government urgently readies environment watchdog for no-deal Brexit

◆ Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments

Scientific American

◆ Silica Blankets Could Make Mars Habitable

◆ Tobacco Plants Made To Produce Useful Compounds

◆ Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans

◆ Anorexia May Be Linked to Metabolism, a Genetic Analysis Suggests

◆ Why Doctors Are Drowning in Medical School Debt

◆ Why the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Is So Special to Me

◆ How to Stop Prisons from Laying the Groundwork for a Fatal Overdose

◆ Striped Maples Can Change Sex Repeatedly

◆ Is Medicine Overrated?

◆ A Strange Dinosaur's Unusual Strut

◆ Sloths Climb a New Evolutionary Tree

◆ 1,000 Years of Congruent Numbers

◆ 11,898 Solar Eclipses in 5,000 Years

◆ Tropical Storm Barry's Dangers Will Reach Far Inland

◆ The "Woodstock of Physics" Is Finally Living Up to Its Promise

◆ Disasters Collide as Tropical Storm Barry Heads Ashore

◆ Celebrating the Engineers behind the First Moon Landing

◆ What to Expect from India's Second Moon Mission

◆ Rhinos and Their Gamekeepers Benefit from AI

◆ Humans Fold: AI Conquers Poker's Final Milestone

◆ A New Twist on Artificial Muscles

◆ How Do You Put a Plane Engine in a Car?

◆ The Simplest and Most Successful Experiment Onboard Apollo 11

◆ Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland

◆ The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

BBC Science/Nature

◆ Climate change: Used cooking oil imports may fuel deforestation

◆ Neil Armstrong - the man behind the legend

◆ New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing

◆ Nasa Moon mission: Open University partners with space agency

◆ Galileo sat-nav system still without service

◆ Anorexia stems from body as well as mind – study

◆ Spektr-RG: Powerful X-ray telescope launches to map cosmos

◆ Chandrayaan-2: India space launch delayed by technical problem

◆ India air pollution: Will Gujarat's 'cap and trade' programme work?

◆ The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest

◆ Hayabusa-2: Japanese spacecraft makes final touchdown on asteroid

◆ A68: World's biggest iceberg is on the move

◆ Climate change: How hot cities could be in 2050

◆ Earliest modern human found outside Africa

◆ European Vega rocket lost minutes after lift-off

◆ Stonehenge mini model reveals sound of monument

◆ Suzanne Eaton, US scientist, found dead in WW2 bunker on Crete

◆ Russian nuclear submarine: Norway finds big radiation leak

◆ Apollo 11: 'The greatest single broadcast in television history'

◆ Mumbai rains: Is India's weather becoming more extreme?

◆ Artificial lionfish powered by ‘robotic blood'

◆ Predator Free 2050: New Zealand ramps up plan to purge all pests

◆ Why blue jeans are going green

◆ Giant jellyfish spotted off Cornwall coast

◆ Could this robot help save coral reefs?

◆ Apollo Moon landing: 'My dad literally loved us to the Moon and back'

◆ Manta ray in distress helped by divers

◆ Wreckfish: The fish that gobbles up unsuspecting sharks

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