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X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful
Mammograms can be painful, but they may not need to be Daria Artemenko/Alamy Getting an X-ray can be uncomfortable –…
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Nature’s Memory review: A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums
What’s missing? Pondering the displays at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group…
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AMOC: The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with giant parachutes
The plan to maintain the ocean current would involve much larger versions of parachute sea anchors Ed Dunens (CC BY…
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Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always lands on the same side
The self-righting tetrahedron Gergő Almádi et al. A four-sided shape that will always come to rest on the same side…
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Dramatic Edward Burtynsky image shows stark desert divide
Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York There is no geophysical logic to the sharp partition in the middle…
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Lake of Darkness: Why Adam Roberts opted for utopia, rather than dystopia in his novel
Adam Roberts’ Lake of Darkness opens as two space ships investigate a black hole Science Photo Library / Alamy Stock…
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Read a short extract from Adam Roberts’s novel Lake of Darkness for July’s Book Club
Lake of Darkness is the New Scientist Book Club’s July pick You were born, in all likelihood, towards the end…
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New Scientist Book Club’s verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up
Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time was (largely) a hit with the New Scientist Book Club One of the wonderful…
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These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth’s early crust
The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada may contain the world’s oldest rocks Jonathan O’Neil Just over 4 billion years ago,…
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Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over the US
A fireball captured on a dashcam in South Carolina Kathryn Rose Farr via Facebook Sightings of a fireball streaking down…
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