Your nationality may influence how much you talk with your hands 26. March 2024 (06:00) When recounting an episode of the children's TV show Pingu, people from Italy made an average of 22 gestures per 100 words, compared with 11 for Swedish people(New Scientist)
Dust clouds from the Sahara are reaching Europe more frequently 25. March 2024 (16:00) Changes in wind patterns and desertification may be increasing the amount of dust from the Sahara desert blown over western Europe and the frequency of these events(New Scientist)
NASA's mission to Europa isn't meant to find alien life - but it could 22. March 2024 (19:00) Later this year, NASA is launching its Europa Clipper spacecraft to the icy moon of Jupiter. Its mission is only to investigate whether the moon is habitable, but now researchers have found that one of its instruments could look for direct signs of life(New Scientist)
Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins 22. March 2024 (19:00) Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported to England from Scandinavia or the Alps, perhaps for use in battle or jousting(New Scientist)
Dogs really do understand that words stand for objects 22. March 2024 (16:00) Pet dogs have different patterns of brain activity when they are shown an object that doesn’t match the word they hear, suggesting they have a mental representation of what words mean(New Scientist)
Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than we thought 22. March 2024 (13:00) Rediscovered magnetic recordings reveal just how extreme the largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event in 1859, really was, highlighting the danger such storms could present to us nowadays(New Scientist)