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The ‘Does It Fly?’ podcast separates fact from science fiction

The ‘Does It Fly?’ podcast separates fact from science fiction

That’s the premise — and tone — of the entertaining podcast Does It Fly?, hosted by astrophysicist and “mad scientist” (his words) Hakeem Oluseyi and actress, writer and “pop culture expert” Tamara Krinsky.


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

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

A better understanding of the SOP could lead to new treatments for these sleep conditions, while also helping anyone who wants to be more alert or creative – so “pretty much everybody”, says Delphine Oudiette, a cognitive neuroscientist at Sorbonne University in Paris, France.


Saving Mexico’s fir forests could help monarch butterflies

Saving Mexico’s fir forests could help monarch butterflies

Local foresters from the Indigenous community in Calimaya planted oyamel fir seedlings on the Nevado de Toluca volcano in central Mexico as part of an experiment to see if the trees crucial to monarch butterflies’ survival can thrive in new locations.


All the action from New Scientist Live – in photographs

All the action from New Scientist Live – in photographs

The speakers included Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan on why we die, TV anthropologist Alice Roberts on ancient epidemics, psychologist Kimberley Wilson on eating for better brain health and statistician David Spiegelhalter on how chance rules our lives.


Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

Evidence of this geomagnetic excursion, known as the Laschamp event, can be found in ancient lava flows, which contain unusually high ratios of certain isotopes caused by increased levels of cosmic rays.


The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

Then the FEP outgrew the brain, being put forward as a definition of life and, inevitably, as the basis for a new kind of artificial intelligence that can reason.


Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

"Greenland was weeks away in terms of getting goods to market [in Europe], which made for a difficult trade network operation," Kevin McAleese, a curator at Rooms Provincial Museum in St John's in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, told Live Science in an email.


Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

The electrostatically charged wings of moths and butterflies could draw pollen out of nearby flowers without the insects needing to land on the blooms, Anna Gibbs reported in “Pollination via static electricity” (SN: 8/24/24, p. 13).


Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review

Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review

Lastly, we assessed its air-cleaning performance by conducting a series of tests using the Perfect Prime air particle monitor, a device capable of detecting airborne pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.


Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

Male frogs use their bird-like calls to attract females, and as these newly named species live close to streams, Scherz thinks they evolved their high-pitched whistles to help their songs stand out from the din of flowing water.


Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

A large team of university researchers from Iowa, Texas and Kansas shared this conclusion in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.


Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

But in a wider search, Stoop found an astonishing 55 stars had fled at speeds faster than roughly 100,000 kilometers per hour in the past 3 million years.