Gorgeous photo taken from the International Space Station

Clouds protrude above the north Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.

(Credit: NASA Johnson)

In this week’s issue: The universe could vanish at any moment - why hasn’t it?

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Black widow spider venom decoded at ‘near-atomic resolution’ by scientists



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Siemens unveils first 354-ft turbine blade for 1.4GW offshore wind farm


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Energy extracted from space, teleported to new location using quantum computer


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Cutting into a brain of a former football player.

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For years of the world’s oceans have mopped up excess, human-caused heat. Now, they are heating up at an alarming rate. Signs of chaos abound, from toxic algal blooms and dead fish to record-breaking hurricanes. This map details where the problems lie

How oil rigs are built

Would you eat butter made of...carbon?

Madeleine Cuff
says a company called Savor is making climate-friendly butter without the help of cows, vegetable oils or even microbes - by converting captured CO2 or natural gas into fatty acids.

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You have probably heard that ultra-processed food is bad for you, but the scientific evidence for how it affects our health is far from conclusive. Why can't researchers just tell us what we should be eating?
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Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer

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Nuclear fusion promises to provide the world with clean, cheap energy - if anyone can get it working. ITER, the world's biggest fusion experiment, has just announced a 10-year delay to its plans, so what happens next?
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may have disappeared and reformed. We had assumed it was first seen in 1665, but that might have been an earlier storm that then vanished.
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Is our universe the only one? How physicists are trying to find evidence of a multiverse.


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Nuclear fusion promises to provide the world with clean, cheap energy - if anyone can get it working. ITER, the world's biggest fusion experiment, has just announced a 10-year delay to its plans, so what happens next?
https://t.co/1uoDj0Unff

Is the solar system about to get a lot bigger?

Years after covid-19 emerged, scientists may have finally discovered why some people seem to be immune to catching the virus.
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In this week’s issue: an evidence-based guide to the risks of screen time - and how to overcome them.

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https://newscientist.com/issue/3496/

About 78 million years ago, a peculiar-looking dinosaur roamed the swamps and wetlands of what is now Montana. The huge plant eater boasted a splendid frill on its head, topped with spikes and two large horns which curved downward like blades. Two more horns jutted out from above its eyes. The dinosaur, described for the first time today in PeerJ, is so distinctive that researchers have declared it a new species and given it a name: Lokiceratops rangiformis, after the blade-wielding Norse god Loki.

But some scientists say the dinosaur could simply be a particularly ornate example of a previously described species. “It’s an interesting-looking animal,” says Jordan Mallon, a paleontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature who was not involved in the study. “I think it’s going to be a little contentious as to whether it represents a new species or not.”

The dinosaur’s skull and parts of its skeleton were discovered in 2019 in a Montana quarry, 3.6 kilometers south of the Canadian border, by commercial fossil hunter Mark Eatman. The Evolution Museum in Maribo, Denmark, bought the fossil pieces in 2021 and commissioned an international team of researchers to collaborate with the company Fossilogic to prepare, mount, and study the specimen in Utah.

Menstruation is occurring earlier and earlier in life for younger generations in the Western world. We still don't know why – but we do know that earlier periods are linked to later health problems.


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