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26 October 2024

Issue 3514

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Health

Food that is healthy for you can still be catastrophic for the planet

Comment
Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions

Health

Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions

Features
Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it

Environment

Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it

Features
Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

Physics

Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

Features

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Health

Food that is healthy for you can still be catastrophic for the planet

Our food has a secret ingredient, the fossil fuels used to produce it. Cutting these out would do us a world of good

Comment

News

Technology

Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe

AI models have safeguards in place to prevent them creating dangerous or illegal output, but a range of jailbreaks have been found to evade them. Now researchers show that writing backwards can trick AI models into revealing bomb-making instructions.

News

Technology

Teaching computers a new way to count could make numbers more accurate

News

Life

Invasive snake is surviving in Britain by living in attics and walls

News

Life

Puppies as young as 6 weeks old know to ask people for help

News

Technology

6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G

News

Environment

Warmer winters mean world’s highest places may store less carbon

News

Life

Male mice flee to female mice to de-escalate fights

News

Health

Risk of peanut allergies from air on planes has been overblown

News

Physics

Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy

News

Space

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope's map of the universe

News

Space

The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why

News

Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

News

Life

De-extinction company claims it has nearly complete thylacine genome

News

Environment

Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild

News

Mind

We're starting to understand what being bullied does to the brain

News

Life

Motor made from bacteria parts is one of the smallest ever built

News

Physics

The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern

News

Earth

Folklore uncovers a tsunami that rocked Hawaii hundreds of years ago

News

Society

What the US election will mean for AI, climate action and abortion

News

Aperture

The Cartwheel galaxy

Space

10 stunning James Webb Space Telescope images show the beauty of space

Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots

Regulars

Features

Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

Physics

Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn’t lit the way to a new understanding of space-time

Features

Health

Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions

Features

Environment

Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it

Features

Culture

Leon Chew, The Call, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst with sub, Serpentine, 2024

Technology

Musical AI harmonises with your voice in a transcendent new exhibition

What happens if AI is trained to write choral music by feeding it a specially created vocal dataset? Moving new exhibition The Call tackles some thorny questions about AI and creativity – and stirs the soul with music

Culture

Physics

Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

Culture

Life

91av recommends documentary Hunt for the Oldest DNA

Culture

Environment

Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

Culture

More

C8FAG5 York Minster, northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England,UK

Environment

Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong

Greening our cities is a good thing, but it has to be done with an eye to the unfolding climate crisis of our times

Comment

Life

Why a potted plant isn't the easiest option for would-be gardeners

Regulars

BrainTwister #43: Consecutive sums

no-section

Mind

How creativity can be found in looking sideways at your goal

Comment

Tom Gauld on the realities of being an evil scientist

Regulars

Twisteddoodles on a zombie invasion

Regulars

Regulars

Missed out on seeing the northern lights? Meta has you covered

Missed out on seeing the northern lights? Meta has you covered

Feedback was feeling left out after failing to see the recent aurora borealis, but was delighted to find Meta providing an AI-generated version. Definitely absolutely just as good as the real thing

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Letters

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