Your Brain Is Glowing, and Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Researchers have measured the brain’s faint glow for the first time, hinting at a potential role of “biophotons” in cognition By Conor Feehly edited by Allison Parshall Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Life, for the most part, is bathed in light. The sun immerses the…
An image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy EHT Our galaxy’s centre may contain an exceptional cosmic spinning top – a black hole that seems to be spinning almost as fast as possible. Michael Janssen at Radboud University in the Netherlands and his colleagues were studying the…
Extreme Heat Is the Biggest Threat to Insurers and Businesses Deadly temperatures put great stress not just on human life but also on the economy, infrastructure, agriculture and health care By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News Construction crew working on a road during a heatwave in Los Angeles, CA on September 4, 2024. Etienne Laurent/AFP…
New Scientist visited a hydrogen well in Kansas Hyterra/Adler Grey The drilling rig rises several stories above a field normally full of grazing cattle. Though we’re in Kansas, the rig is flying both an American and an Australian flag to reflect its owner’s origin down under: HyTerra has come all the way from Australia in…
How Drone Swarms Work—From Iran’s Shahed Attack to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defense By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Dean Visser Illustration of Shahed-136 drones. Naeblys/Alamy Stock Photo Six hours after Israel’s…
The sun’s corona, shown similarly to how a human eye would see it during an eclipse, but through a green filter ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS A carefully coordinated dance between twin satellites has created the first artificial solar eclipse in space, revealing the sun’s scorching corona in extreme detail. The Proba-3 mission, which launched in December last year,…
Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear. Scavengers — especially large species — ensure our world isn’t coated in carrion. But in a survey of nearly 1,400 vertebrate scavenging…
On Friday afternoons shortly before the school bus arrives, my mom arrives at my house. She ambles into my kitchen to make a cup of tea, and after a few minutes my son will come running in the back door. They will chat briefly, but inevitably my son will ask to watch YouTube videos on…
If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft of air against your cheek – that’s about it. No epiphany. No major sign that anything out of the ordinary has occurred. And yet it is often when we look below the surface of the…
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