science

A virus seems to have jumped from marine animals into people for the first time ever, and it is causing serious vision problems Source link

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre optic cables, potentially providing a way to massively upgrade the internet’s infrastructure without the cost and inconvenience of laying any new cables Source link

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area Source link

A new spacecraft concept called NOVA could keep asteroids from hitting our planet by using a huge magnet to gradually pull them apart while shifting their trajectories Source link

Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on reading it in April, he looks back on its origins – and how the idea of moving to Mars holds up today Source link

A device that relies on quantum effects and oversized atoms may be a more reliable way to measure temperature that doesn’t require calibration Source link

Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards, this image by photographer Sebastian Di Domenico was taken in Columbia Source link

One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas hobs and ovens Source link

Infections are increasingly being linked to a higher risk of dementia. In the latest research, scientists have found that being treated in hospital for a severe infection seems to raise the risk of developing the condition over the next five to six years Source link

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ever before using the Hubble Space Telescope – and revealed a mystery Source link