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2 August 2025

Issue 3554

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Team of EMS Paramedics React Quick to Provide Medical Help to Injured Patient and Get Him in Ambulance on a Stretcher. Emergency Care Assistants Arrived on the Scene of a Traffic Accident on a Street.

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Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork

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How to harness your body clock for a longer, healthier life

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How to harness your body clock for a longer, healthier life

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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

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Chaotic streams of energy appear to slice through space

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Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?

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Team of EMS Paramedics React Quick to Provide Medical Help to Injured Patient and Get Him in Ambulance on a Stretcher. Emergency Care Assistants Arrived on the Scene of a Traffic Accident on a Street.

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Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork

New tests to gauge an individual's circadian rhythms could be put to good use helping night workers fend off the ill effects of their unsocial hours

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Life

Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us

Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, suggesting they have a sense of body ownership similar to our own

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Life

Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos islands

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Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bowel syndrome cases

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Environment

Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatwaves

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Life

Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species

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Life

Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungry giant caimans

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Humans

AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire

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The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we caught covid-19

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Our brain's mitochondria may play a crucial role in the onset of sleep

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Mathematics

DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Mathematical Olympiad

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Mind

The time you take an oral exam could affect whether you pass or fail

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Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to keep us healthy

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Life

The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds

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Life

Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together

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Physics

Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting

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Simple skincare routine could stop babies developing eczema

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Environment

Record marine heatwaves may signal a permanent shift in the oceans

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Environment

Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row

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Intensely grieving a loved one could shorten a mourner's life

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Space

Peculiar galaxy seems to contain surprisingly pristine stars

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Humans

Neanderthals were probably maggot-munchers, not hyper-carnivores

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Space

A vast bubble around a dying star is too big to comprehend

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Negative social ties, like frenemies, could be ageing you

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Environment

See the world's largest tidal bore on the Qiantang river in China

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Aperture

Anonymous (Peruvian). 'Stirrup Vessel in the Form of a Lobster,' AD 4th-6th century. ceramic. Walters Art Museum (2009.20.55): Gift of John Bourne, 2009.

Life

Fascinating artistic depictions of sea life over millennia

Marine biologist Helen Scales's latest book, Ocean Art: From the shore to the deep, celebrates humans' enduring obsession with creatures that live beneath the waves

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Features

Chaotic streams of energy appear to slice through space

Physics

Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable

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Humans

Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived

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How to harness your body clock for a longer, healthier life

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Culture

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Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials

Culture

Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

Culture

Comment

New Scientist recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London

Culture

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Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

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Why living in a volatile age may make our brains truly innovative

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Why living in a volatile age may make our brains truly innovative

The unpredictability of our times isn't all bad, as it may help us think up some genuine new ideas, says Daniel Yon, author of A Trick of the Mind

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Technology

How invisibility cloaks could make us disappear – at least from AI

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Mathematics

This string art game will boost your mathematical imagination

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BrainTwister #84: Wild ones

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Tom Gauld on getting tied up in the data

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Twisteddoodles on escape velocity

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Jewellery that monitors movement? No, we can't anticipate any problems

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Jewellery that monitors movement? No, we can't anticipate any problems

Feedback foresees a dystopian future in which "smart jewellery" tracks the emotions and motions of its users

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