Top Hackernews posts from www.newscientist.com
- Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat (www.newscientist.com)
- mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours (www.newscientist.com)
- Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
- The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed (www.newscientist.com)
- India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole (www.newscientist.com)
- People who live past 105 years old have genes that stop DNA damage (www.newscientist.com)
- Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI (www.newscientist.com)
- Brain doesn't slow down until your 60s – later than we thought (www.newscientist.com)
- Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences (www.newscientist.com)
- Two atomic clocks have been quantum entangled for the first time (www.newscientist.com)
- Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers (www.newscientist.com)
- DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks (www.newscientist.com)
- iPod 'squeaks' betray software secrets (2005) (www.newscientist.com)
- BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities (www.newscientist.com)
- Fourth membrane is discovered in the brain (www.newscientist.com)
- Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months (www.newscientist.com)
- Putting solar panels in grazing fields is good for sheep (www.newscientist.com)
- First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power (www.newscientist.com)
- Tuna use sharks as back scratchers despite risk of being eaten (www.newscientist.com)
- 500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks (www.newscientist.com)
- New mineral davemaoite discovered inside a diamond from Earth's mantle (www.newscientist.com)
- Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling (www.newscientist.com)
- Wooden floors rotted by fungi generate electricity when walked on (www.newscientist.com)
- Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail (www.newscientist.com)
- MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus (www.newscientist.com)
- Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn (www.newscientist.com)
- Lab-made dairy products are now a reality (www.newscientist.com)
- Geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away (www.newscientist.com)
- Analysis of Bach's information-dense music (www.newscientist.com)
- Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication (2015) (www.newscientist.com)
- Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene (www.newscientist.com)
- Sicily Hits 48.8°C, the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in Europe (www.newscientist.com)
- Minecraft is helping children with autism make new friends (2016) (www.newscientist.com)
- Astronomers have created the largest ever map of dark matter (www.newscientist.com)
- Biggest void in space is 1B light years across (2007) (www.newscientist.com)
- Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality (www.newscientist.com)
- We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works (www.newscientist.com)
- US police are selling seized phones with personal data still on them (www.newscientist.com)
- NFTs died a slow, painful death in 2023 as most are now worthless (www.newscientist.com)
- Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle (www.newscientist.com)
- Proof of geometric Langlands conjecture so complex almost no one can explain it (www.newscientist.com)
- Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer (www.newscientist.com)
- Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber (www.newscientist.com)
- Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids (www.newscientist.com)
- Chip can transmit all of the internet's traffic every second (www.newscientist.com)
- A gas made from light becomes easier to compress as you squash it (www.newscientist.com)
- A medieval map that made cartography into a science (www.newscientist.com)
- Netflix invents new green-screen filming method using magenta light (www.newscientist.com)
- Woodpeckers don't have built-in shock absorbers to protect their brain (www.newscientist.com)
- Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age (2018) (www.newscientist.com)
- Bath-obsessed ancients (2016) (www.newscientist.com)
- AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium (www.newscientist.com)
- Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen (www.newscientist.com)