Supermodel Elle Macpherson declined chemotherapy to treat breast cancerAustralian Associated Press/Alamy Half of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives, but how many will be able to consult dozens of doctors and then feel confident rejecting mainstream...
Asteroid 2024 RW1 seen over the PhilippinesAllan Madelar/Facebook The surprise discovery of asteroid 2024 RW1, mere hours before it hit Earth harmlessly this week, may have you wondering whether we are at risk of larger space rocks coming out of...
Astronaut Tim Peake explaining space travelJohn Gaffen/Alamy Dear readers, New Scientist Live is one of my favourite weekends each year, and so it is with great excitement that I can say it is now just over a month away. On 12...
Suck it up Reader Simon Leach responded to Feedback’s call for papers in which The Title Tells You Everything You Need to Know with a cheery “Well, you asked for it!”. The “it” was a copy of a report published...
The invention of the printing press helped the distribution of informationJustin Sullivan/Getty Images NexusYuval Noah Harari (Fern Press, out 10 September) Reading Nexus is a strange experience. The quality of the text lurches up and down: one minute you are reading...
Narratives around addiction often reduce it to a series of poor choices, lack of values and weakness. This has real-world consequences, warns Anna Wolfe Source link...
Google has built a number of quantum computersGoogle If a small quantum computer makes a small number of errors, will a large quantum computer make even more errors, making it completely useless? No, say researchers at Google who have made...
September 4, 20244 min readBrutal Heat Wave Will Extend Streak of 100 Days of 100 Degrees FSummer has been brutally hot in the Southwest, toppling records set just last year, and the heat isn’t over yetBy Andrea ThompsonThe NWS HeatRisk...
The predicted path of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the PhilippinesCatalina Sky Survey/ESA An asteroid hit Earth and burned up in the atmosphere just east of the Philippines. It was discovered by astronomers only hours before it streaked across the sky in...
This band can collect sweat excreted around the wrists or anklesSoongwon Cho & Ruihao Song Elastic bands embedded with colour-changing sensors can reveal how hard muscles are working by measuring the acidity of sweat on skin. The device could be...
