They’re a couple: JWST is first to spot pair of mysterious ‘Y dwarfs’
Two extremely cool examples of ‘failed stars’ called brown dwarfs are found orbiting each other.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – May 11, 2023
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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – May 4, 2023
Is the world ready for ChatGPT therapists?
The current landscape of mobile mental-health apps is the result of a 70-year search to automate therapy. Now, advanced AIs pose fresh ethical questions.
Since 2015, Koko, a mobile mental-health app, has tried to provide crowdsourced support for people in need. Text the app to say that you’re feeling guilty about a work issue, and an empathetic response will come through in a few minutes — clumsy perhaps, but unmistakably human — to suggest some positive coping strategies.
Fish on dry land hint at why we blink
Insights from mudskippers suggest that blinking is an adaptation to emerging from the sea.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 27, 2023
Massive mosquito factory in Brazil aims to halt dengue
Facility will produce up to five billion bacteria-infected mosquitoes per year
The non-profit World Mosquito Program (WMP) has announced that it will release modified mosquitoes in many of Brazil’s urban areas over the next 10 years, with the aim of protecting up to 70 million people from diseases such as dengue. Researchers have tested the release of this type of mosquito — which carries a Wolbachia bacterium that stops the insect from transmitting viruses — in select cities in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Vietnam. But this will be the first time that the technology is dispersed nationwide.
Rewilding the planet
An archipelago constructed of sand and mud is bringing new life to a dead lake but can this bold experiment have a lasting impact
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 20, 2023
Is Africa’s Great Green Wall project withering?
The plan to re-green a 7,000-kilometre swathe south of the Sahara is at risk of losing its pan-African vision and ambition.
A glacier’s catastrophic collapse is linked to global warming
Eleven hikers died after weeks of unusually warm weather led to melting of the Marmolada Glacier in the Alps.
Sunshine is transformed into green hydrogen on an ambitious scale
Prototype facility smashes record for converting solar power to hydrogen for its technology category.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 13, 2023
World’s biggest butterfly is low on genetic diversity
An endangered butterfly, found only in Papua New Guinea, has had a small population for a million years.
Three ways to solve the plastics pollution crisis
Researchers are studying how more-sophisticated policies, smarter recycling and new materials could stem the tide of waste.
Research: New Scientist Magazine – April 15, 2023
How do we know that therapy works, and which kind is best for you?
Psychotherapy has never been more available and yet, with so many options, it can be hard to know where to start. Thankfully, researchers are getting to grips with what really works and why
The Power of Language review: What speaking many languages can do
Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 6, 2023
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
Bird-flu virus makes itself at home in Canada’s foxes and skunks
The virulent H5N1 strain now sweeping across the world is adapting to its mammalian hosts in northern North America.
Conquering Alzheimer’s: a look at the therapies of the future
Researchers are looking to drug combinations, vaccines and gene therapy as they forge the next generation of treatments for the condition.
Research: New Scientist Magazine – April 8, 2023
Come explore the quantum realm – it isn’t as confusing as it seems
Quantum theory, and the world of subatomic particles and forces it describes, has a daunting reputation for strangeness. And yet, with the right guidance, anyone can enjoy its many wonders
Cancer tumours in mice shrunk thanks to oxygen-sucking battery
By consuming oxygen near to tumours, the battery makes a class of experimental drugs target oxygen-free cancerous cells more effectively
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – March 30, 2023
A gem of a material could provide a shield for spacecraft
Material that includes carbon with the same structure as diamond could be used to protect satellites from space radiation.
It’s bad! Awful! Negative headlines draw more readers
People scrolling online news are 1% less likely to click on an article for each positive word in its title.
GPT-4 is here: what scientists think
Researchers are excited about the AI — but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy.
Research: New Scientist Magazine – April 1, 2023
Cancer mystery as cases rise among younger people around the world
The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn’t entirely clear, but it may be due to some aspects of modern life
Banishing wrinkles could boost healthy ageing – so who pays the bill?
Research suggesting that wrinkles could be a driver of ageing means we need to rethink the beauty industry – and who pays for it
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