Weekly Wegovy injections can help people lose weight James Manning/PA Images/Alamy A higher weekly dose of Wegovy achieves even greater weight loss than the standard amount, but this comes with a greater risk of side effects, according to trial results. Prior studies have shown people who get a standard weekly injection of Wegovy, which contains…
Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and patronizes trash cans like they’re Restaurant Row. A new field study watched them the way New Yorkers often watch each other: from…
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Super wasps One of Feedback’s least favourite genres of news story is “reports that sound like foreshadowing from the first 5 or 10 minutes of a disaster…
Wendy (Sydney Chandler) is a hybrid, a new creation in the Alien universe Patrick Brown/FX Alien: EarthNoah HawleyDisney+ The description “genre-defying” gets thrown around a lot these days – it is a convenient sticking plaster for any film or series that hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to be. That said, it is an…
The asteroid Ryugu, photographed by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft JAXA Hayabusa 2 Large quantities of water once flowed through the asteroid Ryugu, an indication that asteroids could have brought much more water to Earth than previously thought. The origin of Earth’s water is somewhat mysterious. Incoming asteroids have been proposed as a possible source, but…
The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is part of a bigger, banded structure in the brain called the stria terminalis My Box/Alamy A brain structure that seems to influence food consumption could one day be targeted to enhance interventions for weight loss or gain. Studies have shown that activating neurons in this structure, called…
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination? Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us imagine it to be, with our senses simply recording reality and sending it…
An artist’s impression of the Juno spacecraft over Jupiter’s South Pole NASA/JPL-Caltech Jupiter is not quite as large as astronomers thought, according to the first measurements of its radius taken in more than 40 years. Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its…
Recent headlines warning of concerns such as heart risks or danger to teenagers have put a new spotlight on a diet trend that has long been the popular epitome of a healthy lifestyle: intermittent fasting. “Intermittent fasting’s image has been deeply tarnished—and quite rightly so,” says Stefan Kabisch, a physician at the endocrinology and metabolic…
Ultra-processed foods might be responsible for a rise in obesity levels among children UNICEF/UN0846048/Florence Gou For the first time, more children worldwide are living with obesity than undernutrition. The shift indicates childhood malnutrition has entered a new phase, one that the world is ill-equipped to address. While there are proven strategies for reducing hunger, few…
