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What is Disease X and do we need to worry about it?
Apr 4, 2024 · Disease X is the label that the World Health Organization uses to refer to some currently unknown infectious condition that is capable of causing an epidemic or – if it spreads across multiple ...
What are solid-state batteries and why do we need them? - New …
Oct 24, 2023 · Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock. Toyota says it has made a breakthrough that will allow “game-changing” solid-state batteries to go into production by 2028. These devices will be lighter and more ...
What is rapamycin? - New Scientist
Advertisement. Rapamycin is thought to exert its life-extending properties by mimicking the effect of caloric restriction, one of the most reliable ways to extend lifespan in non-human animals. It ...
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where does it come from?
Mar 9, 2022 · As Stephen Hawking explained, when you pull two objects apart, you need to expend energy to overcome the gravity that pulls them together. As it takes positive energy to separate them, gravity ...
Coin flips don't truly have a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails
Oct 17, 2023 · Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the coin the same way up as it started is around 51 per cent. If you flip a coin, the odds of getting heads or ...
Human sex from the inside out | New Scientist
Aug 21, 2009 · Human sex from the inside out. 21 August 2009. Video: MRI sex. New Scientist brings you sex as you’ve never seen it before: the first video of a couple having sex in an MRI scanner (see video ...
Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert Sapolsky
Oct 18, 2023 · Really careful studies suggest that people won’t run amok. Some pretty superficial ones say that, as soon as you prime people physiologically to believe less in free will, they start cheating ...
Can we finally reverse balding with these new experimental …
Sep 26, 2023 · By the age of 50, between 30 and 50 per cent of men have begun to experience male pattern baldness. Despite there being plenty of handsome hairless men out there – I’m looking at you, Thierry ...
What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant - New Scientist
Sep 20, 2024 · So far, XEC causes the same symptoms as other covid-19 variants such as fever, muscle aches and pains, sore throat and cough. “We will have our ears open to learn whether there are possibly some ...