Lab-grown meat can be shaped into steaks and meatballs, but it can be lacking in the flavour department. Aromatic chemicals that are released when heated could offer a solution

In this episode of Dead Planets Society, our hosts place primordial black holes in a variety of objects with surprising results

A digital "primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating artificial life forms, in an experiment that may hint at how biological life began on Earth

Particles generated by cosmic rays can penetrate indoor and underground environments with ease, and could provide a more secure alternative to GPS for synchronising financial transactions worldwide

Europe is set to regain its capacity to launch satellites into space when the Ariane 6 rocket finally flies after years of delays

An AI driver achieved faster lap times than the best humans in the video game Gran Turismo 7, and unlike previous versions, it only used information available to players

In this tantalising extract from Tade Thompson’s novel Rosewater, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet Kaaro and learn about the psychic powers he has had since an alien invasion

A quantum phenomenon that muddles the rules of cause and effect could make quantum computers better at performing certain operations

Giving AI systems the ability to focus on particular brain regions can make them much better at reconstructing images of what a monkey is looking at from brain recordings

Motor Cars

In this teaser, your job is to try and discover the car model within each sentence.

The model is hiding in the consecutive letters within a sentence.

Example: This recipe calls for only one onion.

Answer: Neon (oNE ONion)


1. The zookeeper gave the chimp a large banana.

2. The police had the home of the pyromaniac cordoned off.

3. There are galactic areas where our starship has not travelled.

4. Do math majors find people with a nice compass attractive?

5. I once saw a gambler from Mexico roll a seven five times in a row.


Check Braingle.com for the answer.

From a quantum-bubble reality show from Peng Shepherd to a murderous valet bot from Adrian Tchaikovsky, enjoy this year's best science fiction so far if you're heading off on your travels, says Emily H. Wilson

Google's Sycamore quantum computer was the first to demonstrate quantum supremacy – solving calculations that would be unfeasible on a classical computer – but now ordinary machines have pulled ahead again

Identical wording placing limits on the export of quantum computers has appeared in regulations across the globe. There doesn't seem to be any scientific reason for the controls, and all can be traced to secret international discussions

Large language models can be abused by malware to help them avoid detection and propagate by crafting realistic replies to emails

Flare

I am bound in a book but you cannot read me,
I am struck and played but not musically,
I am your equal in skill and also in stature,
I am used in heat and light manufacture.

What am I?


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A 1.8-millimetre-wide silicon chip with over 1000 components could help quantum devices communicate without the need for wires or specialised fridges

An AI model learned to predict the choices made by monkeys and their eye movements while playing Pac-Man, hinting that a machine intelligence can “think” in a similar way to mammals

Taiwan’s first ever minister of digital affairs has transformed politics, using online platforms and AI to give power to the country’s citizens – with lessons for us all

Syntrichia caninervis is found in some of the most extreme places on Earth and can survive conditions that would kill almost any other organism, making it a potential candidate for colonising Mars

With lunar exploration ramping up, NASA has been tasked with defining a time zone for the moon. New calculations show that time is ever so slightly faster on the lunar surface, which can affect navigation