The UK Office for National Statistics says men aged 70 feel as healthy as 65-year old men did in 1997. Women aged 70 feel as healthy as 65-year-olds did in 1981 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223973-70-is-the-new-65-when-it-comes-to-health-and-life-expectancy-in-the-uk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners
Apps that secretly give people access to their partners’ smartphones are growing in prominence, but is the threat being taken seriously? Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432572-600-stalkerware-the-secret-apps-people-use-to-spy-on-their-partners/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode
When lead is quickly brought to extremely high pressures using 160 laser beams, it suddenly becomes 250 times stronger – and then it explodes Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223915-blasting-lead-with-160-lasers-makes-it-incredibly-strong-then-explode/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Physicists see new hints of a fifth force of nature hidden in helium
A 2016 experiment pointed towards the existence of an undiscovered force of nature. Now researchers say they’ve seen a second sign Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223860-physicists-see-new-hints-of-a-fifth-force-of-nature-hidden-in-helium/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Trash-talking robot troll makes people worse at playing video games
Researchers who asked people to play a video game against a robot opponent found that humans made worse decisions when the bot trolled them Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223367-trash-talking-robot-troll-makes-people-worse-at-playing-video-games/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging black holes. A team of NASA scientists leveraged LISA Pathfinder’s record-setting sensitivity for a different purpose much closer to home—mapping microscopic…
AI is digitally pasting products into your favourite films and TV
Major entertainment companies including NBC Universal and 20th Century Fox are digitally inserting ads into movies and TV shows after they are filmed, including in Modern Family Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223621-ai-is-digitally-pasting-products-into-your-favourite-films-and-tv/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die
A sophisticated computer simulation of the universe, approximately 1 billion light years across, is modelling tens of thousands of galaxies Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223698-massive-simulation-of-the-universe-shows-how-galaxies-form-and-die/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
It’s getting windier and that could be good news for renewable energy
Wind speed had been slowing down since the 1970s, but since 2010 it’s been getting windier. Though this may just be a blip, it’s good news for wind farms in the meantime Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223727-its-getting-windier-and-that-could-be-good-news-for-renewable-energy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
We have the first full map of the weird surface features of Titan
Astronomers have used data from the Cassini spacecraft to build a full map of Titan’s geological features for the first time, revealing strange belts of different terrains Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223633-we-have-the-first-full-map-of-the-weird-surface-features-of-titan/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…