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These photos reveal the unique agricultural system of the Maya people
The “milpa” system Matilde Gattoni For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that…
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Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?
“Have you ever seen a fungus move in real life?” Episode 2 of the new season of The Last of…
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Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the size of golfballs
Large hailstones can be very damaging imageBROKER.com/Alamy Hailstones the size of golfballs are increasingly raining down on Europe as the…
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23 (more) of the best science fiction books ever – according to New Scientist writers
Is your favourite sci-fi novel included here, or have we forgotten it? Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our…
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Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don’t know where
A model of Kosmos 482, which was originally set to go to Venus Wikimedia Commons More than 50 years after…
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Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers
Could we fight quantum with quantum? Bartlomiej Wroblewski / Alamy A “useless” algorithm that serves as a benchmark for demonstrating…
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Would snails be better than whales for explaining big data? Maybe
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe…
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What if we could experience life as another species?
“A human mind-melded to a rat could move with the rodent, and smell and feel what it sensed…” Shutterstock/Linda Bestwick…
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Record heat in 2023 and 2024 may just have been natural variability
Belgium was one of many counties that saw record temperatures in 2024 FREDERIC SIERAKOWSKI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The past couple of years have…
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Don’t ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them
We need a social media site that is designed specifically for children and teenagers. And we need to do it…
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