Monday, November 14, 2016

Features

  • Earth9 November 2016

    Danger and drama on mountains of lava: Tales of a volcano chaser

    Strange customs and legends spring up around volcanoes, and globetrotting volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer has heard some of the most bizarre myths around

  • Physics | Space21 September 2016

    Reality guide: A poster of how everything fits together

    Our ultimate user’s guide to fundamental physics – all on one spectacular poster for you to download for free

  • Life17 August 2016

    Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth

    Far from being a miracle that happened just once in 4 billion years, life's beginnings could have been so commonplace that it began many times over

Humans9 November 2016

Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing

A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code

Humans9 November 2016

Reputation is everything: Unearthing honour culture in America

High murder and suicide rates among whites in the US south may have the same root cause as honour killings in Pakistan and India, says a Southern researcher

Technology9 November 2016

Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy

Forget lithium battery fires: a safe, turbo-charged alternative way to store power could boost everything from smartphones to smart grids

Health | Humans4 November 2016

The moment my hallucinations made me ask if I was dead

In the middle of a 9-hour mountain trek, Avinash Aujaveb started having intense visions that made him question his health and whether he was even alive

Earth | Humans | Life2 November 2016

Whale tales: The real-life Moby Dicks

Meticulously kept logbooks from 19th-century US whaling ships hold clues that could help us save what they once hunted

Humans2 November 2016

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Cooking makes food more digestible and kills off bacteria, and every human society in the world does it. But where and when it started is hotly debated

Physics2 November 2016

I use the world’s biggest laser to recreate the inside of stars

Physicist Félicie Albert fires massive lasers to create, explore and photograph extreme forms of matter. She lets New Scientist into her high-security lab

Health | Humans2 November 2016

You are hallucinating right now to make sense of the world

Understanding what is happening in the brain during hallucinations reveals how we’re having them all the time and how they shape our perception of reality

Humans26 October 2016

Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy

From sinister clowns to humanoid robots, we're freaked out by faces that are like ours, just not enough. Now we're finding out why

Technology26 October 2016

The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory

Computers that could simulate human intelligence were once a futuristic dream. Now they are all around us – but not in the way their pioneers expected

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