Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion (www.newscientist.com)
Orionids: How to see the Halley’s comet meteor shower this weekend (www.newscientist.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process
How to spot October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse across the Americas (www.newscientist.com)
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October...
How artificial intelligence is helping keep Indigenous languages alive (www.newscientist.com)
Communities in North America and New Zealand are working on teaching algorithms to understand Indigenous languages. But what happens when corporations get involved, asks Annalee Newitz
The best new science fiction books of October 2023 (www.newscientist.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/scifi/t/506685...
The best new science fiction books of October 2023 (www.newscientist.com)
From an authorised sequel to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to a collection of newly discovered short stories from the late Terry Pratchett, there is a mountain of brilliant science fiction to get through this month
Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene (www.newscientist.com)
Using waste plastic to produce a combination of hydrogen and graphene could make it profitable and greener to generate hydrogen as a fuel
These are the next comets that will be visible in 2023 (www.newscientist.com)
Three comets named Hartley, Encke and Tsuchinshan will pass by the sun in the next few months and be visible from Earth. Here’s how you can spot them
Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene (www.newscientist.com)
Using waste plastic to produce a combination of hydrogen and graphene could make it profitable and greener to generate hydrogen as a fuel
How geologic hydrogen went from fringe science to potential green fuel (www.newscientist.com)
Just a year ago, few people took seriously the idea that we could extract hydrogen from the ground as a clean energy source - but now the US Department of Energy is injecting $20 million into the concept
Our ancestors may have come close to extinction 900,000 years ago (www.newscientist.com)
A genetic analysis suggests our ancestral population fell as low as around 1300 individuals nearly a million years ago, but other experts aren't convinced
Cave art pigments show how ancient technology changed over 4500 years (www.newscientist.com)
A huge stash of reddish minerals from a cave in Ethiopia shows how Stone Age people gradually adapted their technologies and practices over a 4500-year period. This material included 4213 pieces of “ochre” – an umbrella term for minerals that are rich in iron and consequently have vivid colours, typically red. Prehistoric...
Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly (www.newscientist.com)
Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines of silk (www.newscientist.com)
ChatGPT gets better marks than students in some university courses (www.newscientist.com)
The renewable energy revolution is happening faster than you think (www.newscientist.com)
How prehistoric people settled one of Earth’s most extreme places (www.newscientist.com)
Euclid space telescope sends back amazing first images of the cosmos (www.newscientist.com)
Best science fiction films about space, according to an astrophysicist (www.newscientist.com)
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to WALL-E, Erika Nesvold picks her favourite sci-fi films set in space (and explains why E.T. missed out)
Women may age fastest during their 30s and 50s (www.newscientist.com)
Women tend to experience accelerated ageing around the ages of 30 and 50, according to a study that analysed a wide range of molecular and physical markers. This may be due to hormonal changes that occur when some women give birth or go through the menopause....
