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The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious ***embly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary tract, a large proportion of our internal anatomy is dedicated to moving fluids around. Perhaps the most impressive piece of plumbing is the gastrointestinal Continue Reading
The island of Helgoland plays an almost mythological role in the history of quantum mechanics Shutterstock/Markus Stappen I have been to more scientific conferences than I care to count, but a recent meeting held on the island of Helgoland to celebrate the centenary of quantum mechanics is one of the strangest – in a good Continue Reading
New Scientist visited a hydrogen well in Kansas Hyterra/Adler Grey The drilling rig rises several stories above a field normally full of grazing cattle. Though we’re in Kansas, the rig is flying both an American and an Australian flag to reflect its owner’s origin down under: HyTerra has come all the way from Australia in Continue Reading
An image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy EHT Our galaxy’s centre may contain an exceptional cosmic spinning top – a black hole that seems to be spinning almost as fast as possible. Michael Janssen at Radboud University in the Netherlands and his colleagues were studying the Continue Reading
If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft of air against your cheek – that’s about it. No epiphany. No major sign that anything out of the ordinary has occurred. And yet it is often when we look below the surface of the Continue Reading
The sun’s corona, shown similarly to how a human eye would see it during an eclipse, but through a green filter ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS A carefully coordinated dance between twin satellites has created the first artificial solar eclipse in space, revealing the sun’s scorching corona in extreme detail. The Proba-3 mission, which launched in December last year, Continue Reading
A dangerous strain of bird flu is spreading in US livestock MediaMedium/Alamy Since Donald Trump blockumed office in January, the leading US public health agency has pulled back preparations for a potential bird flu pandemic. But as it steps back, another government agency is stepping up. While the US Department of Health and Human Services Continue Reading
Al Hajar Mountains in Oman L_B_Photography/Shutterstock A section of Earth’s mantle beneath Oman appears to be unusually warm, in what researchers say may be the first known “ghost plume” – a column of hot rock emanating from the lower mantle without apparent volcanic activity on the surface. Mantle plumes are mysterious upwellings of molten rock Continue Reading
Controlling giant atoms could lead to more powerful quantum computers koto_feja/iStockphoto/Getty Images Giant atoms just got a boost as contenders for making the best quantum simulators and computers, as researchers controlled them for an unprecedentedly long time for a room-temperature experiment. Grab an atom, tune its quantum properties with electromagnetic pulses or laser light – Continue Reading
A suspected volcano (circled) is close to the large Jezero crater on Mars NASA/JPL/MSSS/JHUAPL/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Aster Cowart A volcano seems to have been identified near the rim of Jezero crater on Mars, which is being explored by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The vehicle may have already sampled material spewed out by ancient eruptions. Perseverance landed in Jezero Continue Reading
