2024年10月09日 New Scientist（2024年10月09日上证指数）

1. Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape pleasure and pain

2. AIs can work together in much larger groups than humans ever could

3. Growing number of Earth's ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change

4. Microscopic gears powered by light could be used to make tiny machines

5. Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques

6. Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy's effects forever

7. Slowing growth in life expectancy means few people will live to 100

8. Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one individual

9. The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?

10. Hackers can turn your smartphone into an eavesdropping device

11. Nobel prize for medicine goes to the pair who discovered microRNA

12. MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

13. Will semiconductor production be derailed by Hurricane Helene?

14. Why the problem of P versus NP is worth $1 million

15. Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain

16. Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

17. Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an 'astounding' rate

18. El Ni?o pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

19. Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in Italy 17,000 years ago

20. Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test

21. Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-related sight loss

22. Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data

23. Ants can be used to make yogurt – and now we know how it works

24. Rapamycin could make an epilepsy drug much safer during pregnancy

25. Which AI chatbot is best at avoiding disinformation?

26. Drone versus drone combat is bringing a new kind of warfare to Ukraine

27. Google says its AI designs chips better than humans – experts disagree

28. A note from the editor about New Scientist Live

29. AIs are more likely to mislead people if trained on human feedback

30. Dolphin 'smiles' may truly be a sign of playfulness

31. Exercise supplement creatine could be grown in edible plants

32. Parkrun events could boost your life satisfaction

33. Freeze-thaw cycle helps asteroids ferry molecules of life to planets

34. Planet spotted orbiting Barnard's star just 6 light years away

35. Some fish regrow injured fins and we’re closer to understanding how

36. A shark survived being stabbed through the head by a swordfish

37. Useful quantum computers are edging closer with recent milestones

38. Ancient plankton suggests extreme El Ni?os will become twice as common

39. Here's how coral reefs might survive hotter, more acidic oceans

40. How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

41. Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

42. Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely

43. CBD shows promise as pesticide for mosquitoes

44. Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

45. Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea

46. Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

47. How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

48. Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night

49. What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it

50. Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

51. These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

52. AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

53. Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague

54. Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest

55. Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could reveal Earth's fate

56. We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition

57. Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic's ice

58. Dinosaurs may have run like emus by keeping one foot on the ground

59. Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

60. AIs get worse at answering simple questions as they get bigger

61. World's oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chinese mummies

62. Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine

63. Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing

64. Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?

65. AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert

66. Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog 'pen pal'

67. Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests

68. Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey

79. Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs

70. What to know about the new covid-19 XEC variant

71. An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time

72. Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of hurricanes

73. Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-ever drought

74. Astronauts may need medical evacuation from one-third of moon missions

75. Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse

76. Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 outbreak

77. Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space

78. Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

79. We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find

80. Earth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 million years

81. Most effective migraine drugs revealed by review of trial data

82. Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

83. Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

84. Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

85. The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

86. Strange binary star system has three Earth-sized exoplanets

87. Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a rare mutation

88. Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong

89. Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

90. Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

91. Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

92. ‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

93. Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

94. Air jacket helps 'scuba-diving' lizards stay underwater for longer

95. People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

96. Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

97. Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

98. Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better ‘seen’ by bats

99. Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn