of Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:00:33 +0000 Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly being exposed to high doses of rat poison Full Article
of Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:51:32 +0000 Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the same can happen to tiny jets of liquid too Full Article
of This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:00:19 +0000 An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building blocks Full Article
of Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral" By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:01:06 +0000 Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station Full Article
of Our human ancestors often ate each other, and for surprising reasons By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000 Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead Full Article
of Ancient bronze hand may offer clue to the origins of Basque language By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:01:19 +0000 Archaeologists say a mysterious language inscribed on a 2000-year-old metal hand may be related to Basque, but linguists aren't convinced Full Article
of Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:27:26 +0000 A genetic study of nearly 2700 individuals has revealed the ancestry of Indian people, and gets scientists closer to reconstructing the genomes of ancient Neanderthals Full Article
of Ukraine may have been first part of Europe colonised by early humans By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:00:56 +0000 Korolevo, a site in Ukraine where early humans made stone tools, has been dated to 1.4 million years ago, suggesting early humans moved from Ukraine into the rest of Europe Full Article
of Did the people of Easter Island independently invent writing? By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:00:53 +0000 Wooden tablets containing a language of glyphs called Rongorongo may be evidence that the people of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, created their own writing system without the influence of European language Full Article
of Human brains have been mysteriously preserved for thousands of years By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:01:29 +0000 Intact human brains 12,000 years old or more have been found in unexpected places such as shipwrecks and waterlogged graves, but it is unclear what preserved them Full Article
of The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and prospering By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:00:58 +0100 Can cultivating positive behaviours and tweaking our lifestyles lead to healthier, happier lives – even longer lives? Discover the daily choices that may make the difference in a fascinating new book Full Article
of Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:00:43 +0100 Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin called Homo luzonensis. Since then, we’ve learned a bit more about the newest member of the human family Full Article
of A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the pyramids of Egypt By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 16 May 2024 17:00:12 +0100 Soil core samples show an ancient riverbed under the desert near many Egyptian pyramids, revealing an ancient waterway that dried up thousands of years ago Full Article
of Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the Roman Empire By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 17 May 2024 07:00:30 +0100 Analysis of pollen in sediment cores from a large lake in Greece shows that nomadic livestock herders took over the region after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire Full Article
of These scientific rules of connection can supercharge your social life By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:03:00 +0100 Several psychological biases undermine our ability to make new friends. Understand them and you’ll know the secrets to building meaningful relationships that last Full Article
of Evidence of consciousness in newborns has implications for their care By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0100 Babies cannot tell us what they are experiencing, so it is hard to know what they are conscious of. But new research suggesting they perceive the world consciously could change how we care for them, says Claudia Passos-Ferreira Full Article
of How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0100 Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The emerging picture of how they lived challenges ideas of human cultural evolution Full Article
of 50,000-year-old picture of a pig is the oldest known narrative art By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:00:33 +0100 A new radiometric dating technique reveals that cave paintings on Sulawesi, Indonesia, are even older than previously thought, pushing back the earliest evidence of storytelling Full Article
of Britain saw centuries of economic growth under Roman rule By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 20:00:58 +0100 The technologies introduced by the Romans after they conquered Britain led to the kind of economic growth seen in the industrial age Full Article
of A gripping account of morality shows how we work out right from wrong By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:00:00 +0100 Where do morals come from? In Animals, Robots, Gods, anthropologist Webb Keane argues imagination and differing senses of the world are key to discerning right from wrong Full Article
of Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:00:26 +0100 DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was no population crash before the arrival of Europeans Full Article
of Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:00:40 +0100 Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a group that was isolated for more than 50,000 years Full Article
of AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:00:52 +0100 Archaeologists have used AI to discover hundreds of large-scale drawings depicting figures like llamas, decapitated human heads and killer whales armed with knives Full Article
of Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:00:12 +0100 A young boy who lived towards the end of the last glacial period had dark skin, blue eyes and a congenital heart condition, a study of his genome reveals Full Article
of How the evolution of citrus is inextricably linked with our own By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:00:11 +0100 Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost a gene for producing vitamin C and got a taste for citrus. Since then, we've cultivated the tangy fruits into global staples like sweet oranges and sour lemons Full Article
of Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:01:09 +0000 Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing Full Article
of DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:00:01 +0000 Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships Full Article
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