Explore books dealing with multiverses and alternate worldsGremlin/Getty Images Since I became science fiction columnist for New Scientist, I have had to think a lot about what qualifies as sci-fi. Very often, a book could actually be classified as fantasy,...
I have been dreading the premiere of A Quiet Place: Day One, the just-released prequel to the movie franchise featuring blind but keen-hearing predatory aliens who invade Earth. As a psychologist, I know that terrifying images from films and television...
One big challenge in life is dividing things fairly. From sharing a tasty snack to allocating resources between nations, having a strategy to divvy things up equitably will make everyone a little happier. But it gets complicated when the thing...
Nest: still abandoned Brace yourselves. That abandoned bird’s nest is still seated in the mouth of the large, ancient, carved stone human face hanging high on a wall in the northernmost corner of the outdoor garden known as “Michelangelo’s Cloister”...
Top row: original images. Second row: images reconstructed by AI based on brain recordings from a macaque. Bottom row: images reconstructed by the AI system without an attention mechanismThirza Dado et al. Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate...
Trimeresurus cyanolabris is new to scienceNick Poyarkov A multicoloured venomous snake found in dry tropical forests in central Vietnam has been recognised as a new species. Trimeresurus cyanolabris has a bright grass-green body, yellow eyes, a brick-red tail and blue...
A quantum phenomenon that muddles the rules of cause and effect could make quantum computers better at performing certain operations Source link...
Scientists have optimised pistachio storageMilovan Radmanovac/Alamy Shelling your favourite snack nuts just got a lot easier: physicists have worked out the exact size of bowl to best fit discarded pistachio shells. Ruben Zakine and Michael Benzaquen at École Polytechnique in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejkYQ-SXgY The first-ever footage of a blue whale calf suckling, filmed by a snorkeller in East Timor in South-East Asia, has been released. “It is certainly not a newborn calf,” says Karen Edyvane at the Australian National University in Darwin, “but...
If London’s roofs were white, it would help keep the city cool in a heatwaveNagyxMe/Imago/Alamy Painting rooftops white or covering them with a reflective coating is the best way to reduce air temperature in a city like London during a...
