Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Online psychics If you are engaged in pseudoscience, it isn’t a good idea to send Feedback a press release about it. We will only make fun of…
We found the iPhone Air to have a pretty decent battery life for such a thin-and-light phone, somewhere in the region of 27 hours if you’re continuously streaming video. But it’s still a phone, arguably your most used device on a daily basis, so you may need to top it up during the day if…
Pilot-wave theory may act like waves steering bottles on the sea Philip Thurston/Getty Images Beyond the QuantumAntony Valentini, Oxford University Press Physics, it is fair to say, hasn’t gone to plan. After decades of hopeful searching, dark matter still hasn’t been directly detected. We found the Higgs boson, but nothing to pave the way forward….
A few months ago, I walked into the office of one of our customers, a publicly traded vertical software company with tens of thousands of small business customers. I expected to meet a traditional support team with rows of agents on the phones, sitting at computers triaging tickets. Instead, it looked more like a control…
Most people wouldn’t leave their phones behind when they so much as go for a drive, but NASA astronauts have had to leave their phones on Earth while they went to work 250 miles away at the International Space Station. That is, until now. In a , NASA Administrator shared that the Crew-12 and astronauts…
Health workers by a triage tent for people suspected of having covid‑19 in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2020 PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images The Great ShadowSusan Wise Bauer, St. Martin’s Press It may be perverse to say it, but this is a fine time to publish a book about the history of sickness….
The big game is one of the few instances now in the US where most people gather around the TV to watch the live event together. While the teams playing in Super Bowl 2026 are the true stars of the show (and Bad Bunny, of course), your TV is a pretty important part of the…
Does skill have any influence on the outcome when playing Snakes and Ladders? Sipa US/Alamy Have you ever played snakes and ladders (also known as Chutes and Ladders)? Are you sure? This game has its origins in ancient Indian games in which players roll dice to progress across a board of squares, such as Pachisi….
You can find a lot of good deals for Presidents’ Day, but to say it’s a tech-deal boon would be an overstatement. The best Presidents’ Day deals are usually on mattresses, appliances and furniture, but you can find some decent tech sales thrown in as well. This year, Presidents’ Day comes right after Valentine’s Day…
There is a saying in the halls of British political power that scientific advisers should be “on tap, not on top”. This pithy aphorism, often attributed to Winston Churchill, highlights that, in a democracy, science should guide – not dictate – policy-makers’ decisions. Never was this truer than at the height of the covid-19 pandemic….
