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

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

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

AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or generate video to remove unwanted objects or beautify scenes, but doing so leads to people misremembering what they have seen

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448178-ai-tweaks-to-photos-and-videos-can-alter-our-memories/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news

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

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

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

A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But very few have revealed whether these tiny bits of plastic impact our health

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449545-how-much-should-we-worry-about-the-health-effects-of-microplastics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news

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

A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain to the testicles. But very few have revealed whether these tiny bits of plastic impact our health

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449545-how-much-should-we-worry-about-the-health-effects-of-microplastics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news

We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition