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Researchers can create structures blockogous to black holes in the lab Science Photo Library/Alamy By manipulating light into a fluid-like form, then using it to simulate space-time, researchers hope to unlock our understanding of black holes and other exotic objects. Supermblockive cosmic objects, such as black holes, are very difficult to study directly, but researchers Continue Reading
An image taken by a Ukrainian drone during Operation Spiderweb UPI/Alamy On 1 June, Ukraine stunned the world with an audacious attack against Russian airbases. Using cheap, small drones concealed inside trucks that had penetrated deep into Russian territory, Ukraine says it was able to hit dozens of nuclear-capable strategic bombers, taking out a reported Continue Reading
Minions are characters in films produced by Universal Pictures Cinematic/Alamy Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney alleging m*** copyright infringement that enables users to create images that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters”. The action could be a major turning point in the legal battles over Continue Reading
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com The ultimate tent Ophthalmologist Gus Gazzard writes in after taking a close look at a marketing email he received from WildBounds. It advertised a revolutionary new range Continue Reading
A 19th-century painting of John Franklin’s doomed ship Erebus, trapped in ice Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy The Ministry of TimeKaliane Bradley (Sceptre (UK); Avid Reader Press (US)) When you read a lot of novels for work, as I do, it can be hard to get into a new one at first. You have to push on. Continue Reading
One of the biggest, yet often-overlooked, good news stories of the century so far is how many people now survive cancer. Recent data reveals that today, half of those diagnosed with cancer in the UK will survive for at least 10 years, compared with just a quarter 50 years ago. Similarly, in the US, the Continue Reading
How private are our lives in a highly surveilled world? Jan Klos/Millennium Images, UK Strangers and IntimatesTiffany Jenkins (Picador (UK, available now; US, 15 July)) Whatever happened to good old-fashioned privacy? Nowadays, practically everything about us is known, traded and exploited by social media platforms, even when we aren’t opening the curtains on our inner lives ourselves. Continue Reading
The #MeToo campaign against blockual abuse of women went viral in 2017. Soon after, women had what I’d call an #AnatomyToo moment, when a toxic anatomical label was erased from women’s genitals. “Pudendum”, a long-standing term for “vulva”, the name for female external genitalia, was no more. Pudendum was emblematic of prejudicial attitudes to women Continue Reading
Artemis I sits at Launch Pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center Tribune Content Agency LLC/Alamy The Stern-Gerlach experiment is, in my opinion, truly the first test that forced the results of quantum mechanics onto the scientific community. Proposed by Otto Stern and conducted by Walther Gerlach in 1922, it showed that atoms have a quantum Continue Reading
Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric Joliot caught a glimpse of the neutron in their experiments Smith Archive/Alamy Destroyer of WorldsFrank Close (Allen Lane (UK); Basic Books (US)) When particle physicist and University of Oxford professor emeritus Frank Close learned he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2023, his treatment included three weeks of radiotherapy, giving him Continue Reading
