Earth's upper mantle is revealing the deepest effect of human activity 07. April 2025 (18:00) As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year(New Scientist)
Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy could significantly cut dementia risk 07. April 2025 (18:00) Dozens of trials testing GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide, the medicine in Ozempic and Wegovy, against a placebo suggest that they really could protect against dementia(New Scientist)
'Quantum Darwinism' may explain why we live in a shared reality 07. April 2025 (14:00) A framework inspired by evolution may demonstrate why two observers see the same non-quantum world emerge from the many fuzzy probabilities of the quantum realm(New Scientist)
AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia 04. April 2025 (23:00) As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up costs for the non-profit that runs the popular crowdsourced encyclopaedia(New Scientist)
Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them 04. April 2025 (22:00) A spider species eat their siblings as soon as they die but tolerate each other when they are alive, suggesting a mysterious signal helps them to determine when to dine on a nest mate(New Scientist)
Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 million colonies 04. April 2025 (21:00) Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more than half of all US honeybee colonies died off, potentially the largest loss in US history(New Scientist)
Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US's public health 04. April 2025 (18:00) The US anti-vaccine movement is now firmly embedded in the highest levels of government, where those overseeing public health agencies are making drastic cuts both wide and deep(New Scientist)
Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans 03. April 2025 (21:00) The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives(New Scientist)
