Do Ozempic and Wegovy really cause hair loss? 01. April 2025 (17:48) As semaglutide-based weight loss treatments, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, become more popular, new side effects are emerging - and one is hair loss(New Scientist)
Monkeys use crafty techniques to get junk food from tourists 01. April 2025 (14:02) At the Dakshineswar temple complex in India, Hanuman langurs beg for food by grabbing visitors’ legs or tugging on their clothes – and they don’t stop until they get their favourite snacks(New Scientist)
US bridges are at risk of catastrophic ship collisions every few years 01. April 2025 (00:00) After a container ship struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, researchers began calculating the risks of similar catastrophic incidents for other US bridges – and they’re surprisingly high(New Scientist)
A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls 31. March 2025 (18:00) By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them than in boys, suggesting that huge numbers of women have gone undiagnosed(New Scientist)
Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside a black hole 31. March 2025 (14:00) An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on its outside, a finding that reveals how effectively black holes destroy the quantum states near their event horizons(New Scientist)
Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin 31. March 2025 (12:40) Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how it did so(New Scientist)
Dramatic cuts in China’s air pollution drove surge in global warming 31. March 2025 (11:30) The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air pollution are inadvertently responsible for the majority of this extra warming(New Scientist)
Does aspirin have potential as an anti-cancer drug? 31. March 2025 (11:00) Taking aspirin was first linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer in 1988, but the research into its anti-tumour potential has been full of twists and turns since then(New Scientist)
