There’s an alt-right alt-Twitter and it’s filled with hate

An analysis of a social media site called Gab, set up as a champion of free speech, reveals that one in 20 posts uses hateful language from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Cyclone Gita hits New Zealand after hammering Tonga

New Zealand has declared a state of emergency as Cyclone Gita struck the city of Christchurch, just days after causing devastation on the island nation of Tonga from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Mystery honeycombs in rock may be created by water and salt

Many rocks are covered with circular hollows that look like honeycomb, and now we may finally understand how these strange formations come into existence from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Technology firms must develop new ways to jam Russia’s fake news

The FBI has revealed the lengths Russia's fake news operators will go to – now the likes of Facebook and Twitter must come up with a fix, says Paul Marks from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Quantum computer could have predicted Trump’s surprise election

Quantum computers can improve election forecasts by taking into account how states affect one another, allowing one to predict Trump's slim 2016 election win from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants’ scent messages

Plants use a fragrant language but filthy air is messing with their communication lines, which might explain why insects are in decline and roses are losing their scent from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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We all need to take our heads out of the sand

The fact we are running out of something so seemingly limitless as sand is a potent symbol of humanity's destructiveness. We must all strive to do better

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Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles

It’s the climax of a sophisticated technique called bubble-net hunting – the trapping of krill using columns of bubbles that the whales exhale via their blowholes from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Three photons stick together to create a new form of light

Photons don’t normally make friends, but now three have been bound together into a brand-new form of light by tricking them into acting like atoms from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch

The arrays are due to open for real in November to power a two-year mission to probe the guts of Mars and reveal how rocky planets' core, mantle and crust form from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome

A device barely bigger than a USB stick has produced the most complete human genome to date from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Wave of massive volcanoes created Earth’s first supercontinent

2.2 billion years ago, a huge build-up of pressure inside the Earth triggered vast volcanic eruptions, which formed the first ever supercontinent from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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People are using mosquito nets for fishing and that’s a bad idea

In many tropical countries mosquito nets are handed out to help stop the spread of malaria, but it seems they are often being repurposed as fishing nets from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Sound waves may be able to trigger earlier tsunami warnings

When an earthquake sets off a tsunami, it releases speedy sound waves that could give us early warning. But they still can’t predict the size of the tsunami

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Depriving the brain of a sense may improve stroke recovery

Trimming the whiskers of mice suggests that blocking off some functions of the brain can help it rewire itself around stroke damage, speeding up recovery from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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Trump’s 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here’s a better one

Deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses in the US now exceed those from motor vehicle incidents and guns. The government has been all talk and little action

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

A cache of stone tools found in south India reveals that the hominins living there over 170,000 years ago already had advanced tool-making skills from New Scientist - Home https://www.newscientist.

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