Новости за 19.04.2022

Researchers harness the power of osmotic pressure in a new plant-inspired actuator

Researchers claim to have uncovered cyberattacks using Pegasus software against 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

A man born without sight has a rare form of synaesthesia in which he feels numbers, days of the week and months as different textures

Many clinics are reporting people diagnosed with diabetes during or soon after an infection with the coronavirus - but the picture is more complicated than it appears

Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered in weird pairs of ridges, and they may come from the refreezing of shallow pockets of liquid water hiding all over its icy shell

A major report on priorities for the next decade of US planetary science calls for the first dedicated Uranus probe and an orbiter-lander combo for Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus

If you’ve never seen or more to the point heard a Common Grasshopper Warbler, Locustella naevia, then a visit to East Anglia right now might be merited. There are quite a few noted in our local countryside and on nature reserves (April 2022). They’re summer-visiting migrants and will depart in August. The male’s song, isn’t … Continue reading "Grasshopper Warbler, Locustella naevia"

Chiral fuel drives molecular machine’s rotation, mimicking fundamental biological processes

A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic

Range of measures proposed to combat exploitation of academia

“Decadal survey” recommends $4.2 billion flagship mission to the ice giant

The story of the Knox family is one of education overcoming adversity, finds Kit Chapman

52 organisations sign up to standardised process to gain clearer understanding of author, reviewer and editor demographics

Mingqing Xiao fights allegations he failed to disclose ties to Chinese

Money would pay for nearly half of Europe’s next-generation Einstein Telescope

Chemotherapies that induce new DNA errors may help unleash the immune system on tumors