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.
A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change
If the conditions that preserved the Canadian log can be replicated — which is still unclear — buried biomass from discarded wood and sustainable harvesting could sequester up to 10 gigatons of carbon annually, the researchers estimate.
This researcher studies how misinformation seeps into science and politics
For instance, Ophir automated his analysis of over 5,000 articles about the H1N1, Ebola and Zika epidemics in four major newspapers: the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.
Painful paper cuts, predicted by science
She loves physics for its ability to reveal the secret rules about how stuff works, from tiny atoms to the vast cosmos.
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in