New Scientist

◆ China's answer to SpaceX's Starlink is also threatening astronomy

◆ Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-related sight loss

◆ Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data

◆ Ants can be used to make yogurt – and now we know how it works

◆ Rapamycin could make an epilepsy drug much safer during pregnancy

◆ Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago

◆ Which AI chatbot is best at avoiding disinformation?

◆ Drone versus drone combat is bringing a new kind of warfare to Ukraine

◆ Google says its AI designs chips better than humans – experts disagree

◆ A note from the editor about New Scientist Live

◆ AIs are more likely to mislead people if trained on human feedback

◆ Dolphin 'smiles' may truly be a sign of playfulness

◆ Exercise supplement creatine could be grown in edible plants

◆ Parkrun events could boost your life satisfaction

◆ Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

◆ Planet spotted orbiting Barnard's star just 6 light years away

◆ Some fish regrow injured fins and we're closer to understanding how

◆ A shark survived being stabbed through the head by a swordfish

◆ Useful quantum computers are edging closer with recent milestones

◆ Ancient plankton suggests extreme El Niños will become twice as common

◆ Here's how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidic oceans

◆ How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

◆ Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

◆ Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely

◆ CBD shows promise as pesticide for mosquitoes

◆ Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

◆ Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea

◆ Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

◆ How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

◆ Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night

Scientific American

◆ Hurricane Helene Survivors Face a Second Disaster-Insurance Woes

◆ Where Did All the Thalidomide Pills Distributed in the U.S. Go?

◆ How to Save the World from Apocalyptic Asteroids

◆ Why Mount Everest Is the World's Tallest Mountain

◆ Hard Nuclear Weapons Choices Await Harris or Trump as President

◆ What Linguistic Analysis from the 2024 Debates Reveals about Harris, Trump, Walz and Vance

◆ Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Fruit Fly's Neurons in Exquisite Detail

◆ Hurricanes Helene's Floods Swamped a Hospital, Highlighting Climate Threats to Health Care

◆ Hurricanes Kill People for Years after the Initial Disaster

◆ Power-Thirsty AI Turns to Mothballed Nuclear Plants. Is That Safe?

◆ Revealed: Elephants and Gorillas Hang Out in Hidden Playgrounds

◆ How the 2024 Election Will Affect IVF and Abortion Access

◆ Why Cheeses Such as Mozzarella and Cheddar Melt Differently Than Ricotta

◆ Google Is a Monopoly. Should You Use Another Search Engine?

◆ Suzetrigine Is Part of a New Class of Pain Medications That Could Offer Relief for Chronic Pain

◆ Pickleball Physics Explained, from Balls and Paddles to Shots

◆ Project 2025 Would Leave Hurricane Helene Survivors with Little Disaster Aid

◆ Sports Celebrate Physical Variation-Until It Challenges Social Norms

◆ How Mathematicians Wrestled with the Biggest Controversy in the Field

◆ Nearsightedness Has Become a Global Health Issue

◆ NASA Needs a ‘Lunar Marathon' to Match China on the Moon

◆ First Observation of One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay Hints at Hidden Physics

◆ Why Appalachia Flooded So Severely from Helene's Remnants

◆ Evidence of ‘Negative Time' Found in Quantum Physics Experiment

◆ Hurricane Helene's Devastation Shows No Region Is Safe from Climate-Fueled Disaster

◆ Combating Misinformation Runs Deeper Than Swatting Away ‘Fake News'

◆ How the U.N. Is Fighting Misinformation in Science

◆ Penicillin Musical Plays at U.N. Meeting on Antibiotic Resistance

◆ How Your Brain Detects Patterns without Conscious Thought

◆ Science-Fiction Books Scientific American's Staff Love

BBC Science/Nature

◆ The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone

◆ Fly brain breakthrough 'huge leap' to unlock human mind

◆ UK to finish with coal power after 142 years

◆ SpaceX docks at ISS to collect stranded astronauts

◆ An 'abomination' of a sub – and the boss convinced Titan was safe

◆ Penguin chicks survive tearaway iceberg

◆ Sycamore Gap saplings to become symbols of hope

◆ Climate change supercharged Europe floods - scientists

◆ Sir David Attenborough: 'The world would be worse off without our stories'

◆ Titan sub disaster: Five key questions that remain

◆ Mystery tremors were from massive nine-day tsunami

◆ The great gene editing debate: can it be safe and ethical?

◆ Which rural area will take the UK's nuclear waste?

◆ Anti-pollution law to threaten water bosses with jail

◆ Striking images reveal depths of Titanic's slow decay

◆ Badger culling to end in England within five years

◆ Baby boom prompts call to boost wild beaver population

◆ Why the skies turned red over the UK this weekend

◆ Brian May argues for better farm hygiene to protect badgers

◆ UK military satellite launches to boost space power

◆ Scottish isles may solve mystery of 'Snowball Earth'

◆ Watch: The Northern Lights seen from space

◆ 400-year record heat threat to Great Barrier Reef

◆ Water firms to be punished for years of sewage leaks

◆ Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope

◆ World's biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap

◆ Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales

◆ 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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