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Why a tech start-up wants to pump your faeces deep underground
24. July 2025 (18:00)
Start-up Vaulted Deep, which has funding from Microsoft, says storing human waste deep underground can keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and pollutants like forever chemicals out of surface ecosystems (New Scientist)
Thousands of seadragons are dying in Australia's toxic algal bloom
24. July 2025 (17:00)
An algal bloom in South Australia has caused mass deaths of many species since March - now researchers warn that leafy and weedy seadragons could be facing the threat of extinction (New Scientist)
Our brain's mitochondria may play a crucial role in the onset of sleep
24. July 2025 (15:00)
Textbooks say that mitochondria exist to supply cells with energy, but experiments in fruit flies suggest they are also involved in sleep (New Scientist)
The time you take an oral exam could affect whether you pass or fail
24. July 2025 (07:00)
Midday seems to be the optimal time to take an oral exam at university, which could be due to students not generally being early risers (New Scientist)
Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to keep us healthy
24. July 2025 (01:30)
Many people like to check that they have walked 10,000 steps over the course of a day, but falling short of that target still seems to bring serious health benefits (New Scientist)
Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together
23. July 2025 (21:00)
Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking together, but the evidence is far from conclusive (New Scientist)
The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds
23. July 2025 (21:00)
Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching (New Scientist)
The 25 best fictional robots – according to New Scientist
23. July 2025 (20:00)
From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series (New Scientist)
Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human
23. July 2025 (20:00)
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought (New Scientist)
Tapping into the full power of music could transform our lives
23. July 2025 (20:00)
From reducing pain to relieving stress, the evidence for music's power is strong. Stefan Koelsch says we should use it – now (New Scientist)