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In this week’s issue: Neuroscience is finally helping to understand anorexia’s grip on the brain, a hidden population of moons reveal our solar system's violent history and how to distinguish between typical brain ageing and cognitive decline.
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Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to employ it. Astrophysicist Emma Chapman explores how much these invisible waves can reveal to us about the cosmos – and whether ... newscientist.com/article/252…
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A diverse range of bird species has been recorded at a solar park on rewetted peatland in Germany, suggesting that combining energy generation with habitat restoration could benefit biodiversity, the climate and the economy newscientist.com/article/252…
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Mice seemed to reap some of the benefits of sleep by having their brain activity stimulated while they were awake, and the researchers plan to test the approach on people newscientist.com/article/252…
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Parents report loving their partners less within the first year of having a child, but that doesn't mean the feeling is permanent or inevitable newscientist.com/article/252…
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Actor Ben McKenzie explores the world of crypto in an entertaining documentary that doesn't shy away from calling out those who have promoted the currency newscientist.com/article/252…
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Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next newscientist.com/article/252…
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Europe’s largest land animal, the bison, is thought to be relatively unthreatened by predators, but footage from Białowieża Primaeval Forest in Poland shows it does face attacks from wolves newscientist.com/article/252…
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Our soils are teeming with networks of fungi, and we're starting to understand how important they are newscientist.com/article/253…
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With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch Close Encounter of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley newscientist.com/article/253…
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Bleaching has devastated reefs around the world, raising fears of an irreversible shift. Yet new interventions have revealed that corals can be remarkably resilient if we can give them enough help to recover newscientist.com/article/252…
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Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall newscientist.com/article/mg2…
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Global weather agencies have declared that El Niño has begun, and models show it is more likely than not to be a "super" El Niño. The climate pattern boosts extreme weather around the world, and could lead to record temperatures newscientist.com/article/253…
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Climate models suggest a small nuclear war in the tropics would do even more damage to the ozone layer than a larger nuclear war in more northerly latitudes, increasing exposure to dangerous ultraviolet radiation all over the world newscientist.com/article/252…
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In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research shows it can’t replace human connection. Columnist David Robson explores how beneficial it can be to talk to strangers, with evidence-based tips on how to... newscientist.com/article/253…
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The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes on an editor-in-chief role in her latest book newscientist.com/article/252…
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An experiment with a toy universe made up of extremely cold atoms shows how time can emerge from quantum interactions, instead of existing by default newscientist.com/article/252…
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We can no longer ignore the growing threat of fully autonomous weapons. The world must either act to ban them or accept that they are the future of war newscientist.com/article/253…
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Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered microbial life newscientist.com/article/252…
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Feedback discovers Halupedia, an online encyclopedia that is 100 per cent generated by AI, offering such delights as the 19nd century and The Society for the Prevention of Unnecessary Tuesdays newscientist.com/article/mg2…
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From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the body, and the condition is on the rise. Fortunately, we're learning how best to safeguard this crucial sense and how we might be able to reverse the damage newscientist.com/article/252…
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