New Scientist

◆ OpenAI's o3 model aced a test of AI reasoning – but it's still not AGI

◆ Is solar geoengineering research having its moment?

◆ How the US Supreme Court and Trump could stop a TikTok ban

◆ Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables

◆ Will an mRNA vaccine target the norovirus strain behind surging cases?

◆ NASA's Mars helicopter was grounded in 2024 after surprise success

◆ Hundreds of small websites may shut down due to UK's Online Safety Act

◆ Hairy ‘orangutan pitcher plant' discovered in Borneo

◆ Stonehenge may have been built to unify people of ancient Britain

◆ AI beats human experts at distinguishing American whiskey from Scotch

◆ The most inspiring conservation success stories in 2024

◆ Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth

◆ Is AI finally ready to replace your doctor?

◆ How to make the biggest splash in a pool, according to science

◆ The best space images from 2024

◆ Swarms of tiny robots coordinate to achieve ant-like feats of strength

◆ Ultra-thin diamond wafers for electronics made using sticky tape

◆ Ancient hominin Lucy was a lousy runner, simulations show

◆ Are quantum computers now advanced enough to need operating systems?

◆ The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on

◆ Elon Musk's brain-implant firm Neuralink did its first tests in 2024

◆ 2024 saw the first living people to receive pig kidney transplants

◆ 'Artificial tongue' can detect chemical makeup of alcoholic drinks

◆ Unified approach could improve nature, climate and health all at once

◆ Earth had a temporary mini-moon that was a chunk of the real moon

◆ The most encouraging climate solutions and green technologies of 2024

◆ Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

◆ UK plans to favour AI firms over creators with a new copyright regime

◆ Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago

◆ The best and weirdest photos of robots from 2024

Scientific American

◆ Run, Lucy, Run! Human Ancestors Could Jog but Not Very Far or Fast

◆ Ancient Moon Melt Event May Explain 150-Million-Year Gap in Age Estimates

◆ Bird Flu Has Spread Out of Control after Mistakes by U.S. Government and Industry

◆ Tech Stereotypes Discourage Girls from Computing and Engineering as Early as Age 6

◆ What Gives Christmas Trees Their Crisp, Cozy Scent?

◆ The Winter Solstice Is Here. How Dark Days Affect the Human Body

◆ The Human Brainwaves Centennial Exposes a Darker Science History

◆ How Do We Name the Stars?

◆ Conservation Efforts Save Pandas, Wolves and Panthers from Extinction

◆ This Year's Nobel Prizes Are a Warning about AI

◆ The UnitedHealthcare Tragedy Is Why Insurance Needs to Change Now

◆ Biden Pledges Huge Climate Emissions Cuts He Can't Enforce. Here's Why It Still Matters

◆ Trump's Pick for NIH Director Could Harm Science and People's Health

◆ How Dartmouth's Sexual Harassment Scandal Transformed the Lives of These Women in Science

◆ Most Expensive Dinosaur Fossil Ever Could Reveal Stegosaurus Secrets

◆ Earth Life Found inside Ryugu Asteroid Samples

◆ Mysterious Constant that Makes Mathematicians Despair

◆ Genetic Testing Is a Gift. But It Shouldn't be a Present

◆ 9 Space Images from NASA and Beyond That Stunned in 2024

◆ U.S. Has First Case of Severe Bird Flu, CDC Confirms in H5N1 Update

◆ Will the World's First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here's Why We're Skeptical

◆ 78 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2024

◆ Should You Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula?

◆ 8 Fascinating Things We Learned about Language in 2024

◆ Wildfires Are Threatening Astronomy, and the Worst Is Yet to Come

◆ Please Don't Take Moral Advice from ChatGPT

◆ How to Manage Holiday Grief in Yourself and Others

◆ The Public Distrusts Scientists' Morals, Not Their Science

◆ Can a New Generation of Conservationists Make the Field More Accessible?

◆ Baby Humpback Whales Burp and Bark to Beg Mom for Milk

BBC Science/Nature

◆ Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approvals to end

◆ Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say

◆ Trouble in Arctic town as polar bears and people face warming world

◆ Nasa astronauts Butch and Suni's homecoming delayed again

◆ Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges

◆ Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?

◆ Government has broken the law on sewage, says watchdog

◆ One in four properties at flood risk by 2050 - report

◆ Government unveils new powers to approve onshore wind farms

◆ Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists

◆ 'Christmas lights' galaxy reveals how Universe formed

◆ Seal colony thriving 'thanks to secluded site'

◆ Top UN court to rule on key climate questions

◆ Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?

◆ Is nuclear power gaining new energy?

◆ Huge deal struck but is it enough? 5 takeaways from a dramatic COP29

◆ This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit

◆ Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists

◆ Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists

◆ China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk

◆ Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction

◆ World way off target in tackling climate change - UN

◆ Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic

◆ Nature presenter Chris Packham settles case over axing of green policy

◆ New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life

◆ Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why

◆ What's next for Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship rocket?

◆ Joyful welcome by stranded astronauts for SpaceX capsule crew

◆ Astronauts reveal what life is like on ISS – and how they deal with 'space smell'

◆ Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks

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