International News
Plant skin grafts could result in new kinds of vegetables
4/2/2025
A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the innards of another
Shingles Vaccination May Help Protect People from Alzheimer’s Disease
4/2/2025
A natural experiment in Wales showed that a shingles vaccine might lower the risk of developing dementia
Trump Administration Attacks on Science Trigger Backlash from Researchers
4/2/2025
“The risks of remaining silent at this defining time are far greater than the risks of speaking out,” says one scientist regarding the Trump administration’s attacks on science
Weekend workouts can be as valuable as exercising throughout the week
4/2/2025
Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health benefits as doing the same amount of physical activity spread out throughout the week
What if human blood were toxic to mosquitoes? A drug can make it so
4/2/2025
A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.
Photoinduced copper-catalysed deracemization of alkyl halides
4/2/2025
A chiral copper catalyst, generated in situ from commercially available components, can be used to achieve photoinduced deracemization of alkyl halides through carbon–halogen bond cleavage.
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
4/2/2025
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of 7 years by approximately one-fifth.
Mastering diverse control tasks through world models
4/2/2025
A general reinforcement-learning algorithm, called Dreamer, outperforms specialized expert algorithms across diverse tasks by learning a model of the environment and improving its behaviour by imagining future scenarios.
US government fired researchers running a crucial drug use survey
4/1/2025
A termination letter obtained by New Scientist reveals that the Trump administration has gutted the office that runs the country’s only nationwide survey on drug use and mental health
How nothing could destroy the universe
4/1/2025
The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain dark energy and nothingness even has the potential to destroy the universe, explains physicist Antonio Padilla
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