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AI carpenter can design recreations of furniture from a few photos

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 03:53 AM PDT

An algorithm can turn photos of wooden objects into a 3D model that is detailed enough for a skilled carpenter to replicate

Why invertebrates should be included in animal welfare protections

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT

A new animal welfare law in the UK is a step in the right direction, but it should include invertebrates too, say Alexandra Schnell and Nicola Clayton

UK summers are likely to regularly feature intense 40°C heatwaves

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 05:01 PM PDT

UK summers are likely to regularly see temperatures above 40°C even if humanity manages to limit global warming to 1.5°C, meteorologists have warned

12 Bytes review: Jeanette Winterson on AI and making life less binary

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT

Jeanette Winterson's latest non-fiction book is a smart take on AI, intelligence and our binary world. Her thought-provoking essays offer a refreshingly optimistic take on AI's future

Parents' second-hand marijuana smoke may cause colds in children

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 06:00 PM PDT

Children whose parents smoke or vape cannabis appear to get slightly more respiratory infections, such as colds and flu, than those whose parents just smoke tobacco or don't smoke at all

Covid-19 news: Rules eased for vaccinated EU or US visitors to England

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:57 AM PDT

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic

Caffeine-fuelled bumblebees are better at foraging for nectar

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT

Bumblebees that get a boost of caffeine are better able to remember the odours of specific flowers, helping them to forage in future

X-rays can echo and bend around the back of supermassive black holes

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT

Flashes of X-rays have been spotted echoing from behind a supermassive black hole, confirming one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity

Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT

The preserved remains of sponges found in Canada suggest that animals may have originated 350 million years earlier than we thought

UK conditions are ideal for evolving vaccine-resistant covid variants

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:30 AM PDT

Countries which are partially vaccinated and have high rates of infection find themselves in a dangerous period in which immunity-escaping covid-19 variants are most likely to emerge

Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT

A single-celled organism with no brain that walks on surfaces using 14 "legs" seems to control these legs with a mechanical computer made of fibres called microtubules

Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Newly discovered cave art gives fresh insight into the minds of our ancestors - and upends the idea that a Stone Age cultural explosion was unique to Europe

Part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft may still be in orbit around the moon

Posted: 28 Jul 2021 04:53 AM PDT

A discarded part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that helped return astronauts from the first visit to the lunar surface may still be in orbit around the moon, rather than having crash-landed as once thought

Waves of animals died at an ancient Spanish lake and now we know why

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT

Fossil forensics and artificial intelligence have shed light on how multiple groups of large mammals died by a lake in what is now Spain 9 million years ago

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