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The Monte Verde controversy is back: who first lived in the Americas?
The Monte Verde sites in Chile have been the source of arguments among archaeologists for decades. Columnist Michael Marshall finds the row
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Do AIs already process information in a way that gives rise to consciousness?
A leading theory of consciousness explains experience as information flowing through a global workspace in the mind. On board a luxury yacht
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Why the worst El Niño killed millions – and how we can avoid a repeat
The world hasn't experienced an El Niño this strong since the 1870s, when it sparked a terrible global famine. Are we better prepared this t
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Two large asteroids found spinning as fast as a fairground ride
Rocks in the asteroid belt rotating at ultra-fast speeds suggest our understanding of asteroid structure might be wrong
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Does each new covid-19 variant pose a significant threat?
Most covid-19 cases are caused by a particular type of variants, but do we need to worry every time a new one emerges?
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Tattoos could be turned on and off with light
A new type of ink could overcome one of the main downsides of tattoos: the inability to make them invisible
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Nearly 1 in 10 young adults could have fatty, narrow arteries
Atherosclerosis, the build-up of fatty plaque in arteries, usually affects people older than 50, but a "meaningful" proportion of younger ad
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Rising water is creating inland ghost forests in the US
Forests full of dead trees aren’t just found by the US coasts – they are also appearing far from the sea around freshwater lakes
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Grief and tech collide in uneasily brilliant sci-fi film The Remotes
Shown at the New York Film Festival, John Torres’s film The Remotes tells of a mysterious app that seems to be controlling drivers' bodies,
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Number of known species of giant waterlilies almost doubles
A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three discovered in the past f
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The big unanswered question about Russia’s ‘plague’ death
Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what made officials
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AI or ‘super intelligence’? Trump isn’t the only one who is confused
US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called “super intelligence”. Columnist Jacob Aron explains
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OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof
When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers – however,
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Climate satire Digger – with Tom Cruise on top form – is full of surprises
What are we to make of Digger, a climate satire by a normally well-respected film-maker that’s been largely panned by critics? Stay with it
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Record El Niño threatens Great Barrier Reef with ecological shift
Researchers are worried about the impact the strongest-known El Niño will have on the Great Barrier Reef, and whether anything can be done t
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The world may never go back to how it was after this monster El Niño
This El Niño is forecast to end around June next year after smashing all records, but its impacts could persist indefinitely in some parts o
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The most interesting mathematical discoveries in OpenAI’s 722 new papers
OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest open problems in mathematics – here are some with the most p
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194-year-old tortoise has exceptional DNA repair systems that fight off ageing
The genome of Jonathan the giant tortoise, a 194-year-old resident of St Helena island, has been probed to understand how he has been alive
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Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age
When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into tools
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If you want to know how to think about healthy eating, read this book
Christopher Gardner's Food Sense provides a refreshingly different take on what we should eat, and why. It has some real lessons to offer, f
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Why do people look better in a mirror than in a photograph?
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Her
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What forces act on fluid moving through a pipe to make it spiral?
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Her
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Do olfactory illusions exist, similar to optical and audio illusions? part 3
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Her
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This week’s new questions
Why does music evoke emotion, and do people from other cultures feel the same way? Why do we scrunch our faces up when we taste something so
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