The music you should play at a party to ensure conversations flow
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It is easier to focus on conversations when background music is playing if the song is unfamiliar to you, according to brain activity data ..read more
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Physicists have worked out how to pour water as quietly as possible
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The sound of pouring water into a cup can be tamped down by changing the height of the pour or the diameter of the spout, but physicists have found another variable that helps silence it even more ..read more
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COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern climate record
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The COP28 climate summit kicked off with a report on the many records broken in 2023, including unprecedented rises in greenhouse gases, global temperatures and sea level ..read more
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The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
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The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided much-needed habitats for many animals, delighting conservationists but alarming some landowners ..read more
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The 22 best non-fiction and popular science books of 2023
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From Carlo Rovelli on white holes to Fei-Fei Li on AI and Alison Pouliot on remarkable mushrooms, here is New Scientist's selection of the best non-fiction of the year ..read more
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Paris climate goal of less than 2°C of warming is within our grasp
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Despite pessimism over global warming, the agreed target of keeping it well below 2°C is actually looking increasingly likely to be met, says Jakob Thomäe ..read more
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Killing pigeons 'not in their best interests', find pigeon ethicists
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Feedback is greatly taken by a new study into the ethics of pigeon racing from researchers at Newcastle University in the UK ..read more
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Cannabis probably doesn't help you sleep better
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Many people take cannabis to help them sleep, but there is little evidence that the drug makes a difference ..read more
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Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed
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Ancient footprints found in Lesotho resemble those left by birds, but they were made around 60 million years before the ancestors of birds split from other dinosaurs ..read more
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Crystal-hunting DeepMind AI could help discover new wonder materials
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We know of around 48,000 inorganic crystal structures, which provide materials with a range of properties. Now, an AI created by Google DeepMind has predicted over 2 million more possibilities ..read more
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