The Menzies story _has_ made the front page, though?

Jerry Wei It’s weird that arxiv can detect the word “time travel” and flag a paper but can’t detect “as an AI language model I am not equipped to do this task”

Round of applause please for this week’s cover 👏👏👂

This is such a cool story newscientist.com/article/242722…

Dead Planets Society is back!! This season we kick off with a huge question: Can we destroy a black hole? Allison Kirkpatrick (@akastro.bsky.social) says yes! With caveats of course. Listen here: newscientist.com/article/242694…

Looks intriguing David, congrats!

This is a very clever and informative paper: of 99 SLT students asked to consume pureed solids and mildly thick liquids for just 24 hrs, 60% didn’t/couldn’t. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.104…

Radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy...the next big change in cancer treatment could be drug-sensitivity testing, when hundreds of drug combinations are tested on a 'clone army' of thousands of mini-cancers, grown from your tumour newscientist.com/article/242540…

Other than humans, animals just eat what they find, as they find it – no cooking, no washing, Why aren’t they vomiting all the time?

Do you know? Let us know at [email protected] and your answer can be printed in the magazine.
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That's from a 2013 Guardian article
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NS obit here
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Easy way to avoid restaurant 'brand charge' on bill - brand boycott theguardian.com/business/2024/…

#Prostate cancer screening has long been controversial but a refinement of the method could reduce the harms from overdiagnosis newscientist.com/article/242559…

I counted the word orgasm being used 18 times in this New Scientist story newscientist.com/article/242555… Definitely not a time for elegant variation in Second Mentions

Is there a #woodwideweb ? For @Nature_news I look at the science behind this idea – and how scientists working in #forestecogy , #soils and #fungi feel about popular claims that trees care for each other via a fungal network in the soil bit.ly/3PNursZ

When a long-term memory forms, some brain cells experience a rush of electrical activity so strong that it snaps their DNA.

Then, an inflammatory response kicks in, repairing this damage and helping to cement the memory, a study in mice shows go.nature.com/43DZQns

Have they had a bad lip filler job?

I see Rolling Stone UK is **still** commissioning writers and then ghosting them to avoid payment. This is not OK. Writers shouldn't go near this magazine, and neither should musicians/actors and their publicists.

I can't resist a challenge...